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Posen is a village in
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, United States. Posen is the
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name for the western Polish city of
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. The population of the village was 5,632 at the 2020 census.


Geography

Posen is located at (41.628234, -87.685723). According to the 2010 census, Posen has a total area of , all land.


History

The area that is now Posen was settled by farmers, mainly of Dutch and
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origin, in the second half of the 19th century. In 1893 a
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-based real estate firm hired 75 agents in the Polish-speaking areas of Germany to sell land to
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seeking to emigrate to the United States. Over the next few years the village emerged as a place largely inhabited by factory workers, mainly employed at nearby Harvey, who also had room on their lots for gardens. In 1894 the
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established a mission to serve the Polish residents of Posen, which was elevated to
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status as St. Stanislaus the Martyr in 1898 (the church permanently closed in 2022). In the 1930s the population of Posen was 98% of Polish origin, and in 1960 only 0.1% of the population was identified in the census as being not white, or 4 of the 4,513 inhabitants. In 1963 there were 7% black students that attended the Posen School. In 1990 Posen, having fallen to 4,226 inhabitants, was still 94.5% white, a large portion of this population being Polish. About 4% of the population identified as being both white and Hispanic, for an overall 7.3% or 310 people identifying as being Hispanic. In 2010 3,171 residents of Posen identified as
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, representing the expansion of the Hispanic population to 10 times what it had been 20 years before (or an increase of more than 900% over 10 years). In the same time period the number of African American residents of the village increased from 60 (or 1.4% of the population) to 1,035. This means that the percentage rate of growth of the African American population of Posen over the last 20 years has been greater than that of the Hispanic population. While as late as 2004 the ''Encyclopedia of Chicago'' still referred to Posen as "predominantly Polish American" even then an actual examination of the 2000 census ancestry report would have shown that only a quarter of the population claimed to have Polish ancestry.


Demographics

As of the 2020 census there were 5,632 people, 1,796 households, and 1,186 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 1,920 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 26.35%
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, 16.44%
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, 2.41% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.05%
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, 38.81% from other races, and 15.32% from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 61.40% of the population. There were 1,796 households, out of which 37.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.00% were married couples living together, 9.02% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.96% were non-families. 30.62% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.52% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.25 and the average family size was 3.21. The village's age distribution consisted of 27.4% under the age of 18, 18.2% from 18 to 24, 21.7% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 130.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 121.0 males. The median income for a household in the village was $47,378, and the median income for a family was $63,068. Males had a median income of $21,956 versus $24,053 for females. The
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for the village was $17,927. About 8.9% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the
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, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.


Government

Posen is in
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.


Education

Posen-Robbins School District 143½ serves the majority of Posen, while a portion is in the West Harvey-Dixmoor Public School District 147. The former portion is also in the Bremen Community High School District 228, while the latter portion is also in the Thornton Township High School District 205. The
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operated St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr School in Posen from its opening circa 1893 until it closed in 2006. Its final enrollment was 142, and the small number of students was the reason for its closure.


Transportation

Pace provides bus service on routes 349, 354 and 359 connecting Posen to destinations across the Southland.


Notable person

*
Don Kolloway Donald Martin Kolloway (August 4, 1918 – June 30, 1994), was an American professional baseball player who played 12 years in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Chicago White Sox (1940–1943, 1946–1949), Detroit Tigers (1949–1952 ...
, infielder for the
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,
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and
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; born in Posen


References


External links


Village of Posen official website
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