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Hillside is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago with a population of 8,320 at the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 2,744 households in Hillside.

German Lutheran immigrants began Hillside's formal settlement in the 1840s, planting farms and building the Immanuel church and school near the intersection of Wolf Road and 22nd Street.

The village got its name from the Illinois Central Railroad station called Hillside, so named because westbound trains had to climb a slope at that spot, and the village was founded in 1905.

In the 1850s Marion Covell discovered a shallow limestone deposit on his land, and the quarry he opened in 1854 supplied crushed stone for road building across the Chicago area until the mid-1970s.

Hillside is famous across Chicagoland for its cemeteries: Mount Carmel Cemetery, opened in 1894, and Queen of Heaven Cemetery, opened in 1947, face each other across Roosevelt Road.

Mount Carmel Cemetery holds the graves of gangster Al Capone and gang leader Dean O'Bannion, along with the Bishops' Mausoleum where Chicago's archbishops are buried.

Blues legend Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is buried in Hillside's Oakridge Cemetery, which also contains a section known as the Oakridge Jewish Cemetery.

Hillside boomed after World War II, growing from 1,080 residents in 1940 to 2,131 in 1950 and then surging to 7,794 by 1960.

The pioneering Hillside Retail Mall opened in 1956 beside the new Congress Expressway, though most of it was demolished in 1997 to make way for a large auto dealership.