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Greenwood, IL
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McHenry County, 52 miles NW of the Loop. Settling on fertile prairies in the 1840s,
Yankee
farmers named this area after nearby oak groves. For over a century, the community remained a collection of houses around an 1859 school and an 1895 general store. In 1995, fearing annexation the village of
Wonder Lake,
residents voted to incorporate. The population was 244 in 2000.
| Greenwood, IL (inc. 1995) | |||||
| Year |
Total
(and by category) |
Foreign Born | Native with foreign parentage | Males per 100 females | |
| 1990 | 203 | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | 244 | 0.0% | — | 102 | |
| 227 | White alone (93.0%) | ||||
| 6 | Asian alone (2.5%) | ||||
| 2 | Some other race alone (0.8%) | ||||
| 9 | Two or more races (3.7%) | ||||
| 16 | Hispanic or Latino* (6.6%) | ||||
Bibliography
McHenry County in the Twentieth Century, 1968–1994.
1994.
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