Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Park population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Park lost 433 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +77. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 304th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Forest Park is 94% of it.

Forest Park covers 2.40 square miles of land, for 5,769 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Forest Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Forest Park is in

All of Forest Park's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Forest Park holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Forest Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60130. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Forest Park is

The Census internal point of Forest Park is at 41.868400, -87.815700. Springfield, the capital, is 173.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Maywood, IL (23,364 people), 1.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 7.1 miles away.

Daylight in Forest Park

At 41.87° N, Forest Park gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is North Riverside, 1.6 miles away, with 7,161 people.