SperlingViews - Minooka, Illinois
96.02% of people are white, 0.81% are black, 0.73% are asian, 0.28% are native american, and 2.16% claim 'Other'. 6.56% of the people in Minooka, IL, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 93.44% are non-hispanic).
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crime - 1/2/2010
minooka might not be ranked badly in property or whatever the other one is but a huge part of minooka is drugs. minooka is ranked as one of the highest drug abused schools in the state.[read more...] |
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My Town - 7/20/2009
Minooka, IL is a formally rural based, agricultural town, 54 miles southwest of Chicago. In the past 10 years, as housing costs have increased, the town has grown from 1500 people to 7000 +. The economic downturn has actually helped the community by allowing the growth to slow and school populations to settle. Minooka is generally a traditional middle class town. One downfall, I believe, is the excess of Section 8 housing creating an environment for crime.[read more...] |
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Little Minooka - 8/11/2007
Minooka, though slowly growing is still a small town with its little bustling shops and corn fields surrounding it. It has lost its little village atmosphere and has become impersonal to some degree. Industrial parks are being built all over the area and trucks abound, holding up traffic and making it quite dangerous for children to walk or ride their bikes in certain areas. Crime is not as bad as other areas, but it does have its problems. All in all, it is a good place to live as yet.[read more...] |
