num_pages: 128
description: Ten miles west of Chicago on the west bank of the Des Plaines River sits Maywood, a village that was founded in 1869 by seven New England businessmen who established the Maywood Land Company. This prairie community, carefully laid out along the railroad, experienced a population boom after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Soon industry arrived, followed by a variety of ethnic groups. Maywood was one of the few early suburban communities with an African-American neighborhood.
language: English
title: Maywood
titlecomplete: Maywood (Images of America: Illinois)
ratings_count: 4
series: Images of America: Illinois
publisher: Arcadia Publishing