North Utica, Illinois: Difference between revisions

An F3 tornado struck Utica on April 20, 2004, heavily damaging the downtown business district, causing $8 million in damage and killing 8, with another indirect fatality officially recognized by the village.<ref name="UniverseOfAdventures">{{Cite web |url=https://universeofadventures.com/2004-utica-tornado-an-unlikely-tornado-day-turned-horrific/ |title=2004 Utica Tornado - An Unlikely Tornado Day Turned Horrific |date=2020-08-August 10, 2020 |access-date=December 7, 2022-12-07 |website=UniverseOfAdventures |publisher=UniverseOfAdventuresBlog |url-status=live}}</ref>

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According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, North Utica has a total area of {{convert|3.47|sqmi|km2|2}}, of which {{convert|3.46|sqmi|km2|2}} (or 99.68%) is land and {{convert|0.01|sqmi|km2|2}} (or 0.32%) is water.<ref name="gaz2021">{{Cite web |last=Bureau |first=US Census |title=Gazetteer Files |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |access-date=2022-06-June 29, 2022 |website=Census.gov}}</ref>

As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US1754222 |access-date=2022-06-June 28, 2022 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> there were 1,323 people, 449 households, and 330 families residing in the village. The population density was {{Convert|381.71|PD/sqmi|PD/km2}}. There were 570 housing units at an average density of {{Convert|164.45|/sqmi|/km2}}. The racial makeup of the village was 91.31% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.30% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.23% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.30% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.68% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 7.18% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 5.52% of the population.

There were 449 households, out of which 5129.008% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.69% were married couples living together, 8.91% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.50% were non-families. 17.59% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.24% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size was 2.53.

Local attractions include Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort, Starved Rock Entertainment Indoor Playland and Escape Rooms and [[Starved Rock State Park]].