Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois


Lyons Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 111,688. Lyons Township was established in 1850. The nearby village of Lyons is often incorrectly referred to as "Lyons Township"

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lyons Township covers an area of ; of this, is land and is water.
The boundaries of Lyons Township are Harlem Avenue on the east; the Cook-DuPage County boundary on the west; the line of 87th Street on the south, except west of Willow Springs, where it follows the Des Plaines River to the Cook-DuPage county line; and the line of 39th Street on the north. There are seventeen municipalities in or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-seven square miles of territory:
There is one unincorporated community in the township:
The township contains these six cemeteries: Archer Woods Memorial Park, Bethania, LaGrange, Lithuanian National, Resurrection and Saint Johns.

Major highways

As of the 2010 census: