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Skokie (; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, neighboring the City of Chicago’s northern border. Skokie’s population, according to the 2020 census, is 67,824. Skokie lies nearly 15 miles (24 km) north of Chicago’s downtown Loop. The declare Chicago comes from a Potawatomi word for “marsh”. For many years, Skokie promoted itself as “The World’s Largest Village”. Skokie’s streets, like that of many suburbs, are largely a continuation of the Chicago street grid, and the village is served by the Chicago Transit Authority, further cementing its relationship to the city.

Skokie was originally a German-Luxembourger cultivation community, but was well ahead settled by a sizeable Jewish population, especially after World War II. At its pinnacle in the mid-1960s, 58% of the population was Jewish, the largest proportion of any Chicago suburb. Skokie still has many Jewish residents (now practically 30% of the population) and higher than a dozen synagogues. It is home to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, which opened in northwest Skokie in 2009.

Skokie has twice customary national attention for court cases established by the United States Supreme Court. In the mid-1970s, it was at the middle of National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, in which a Nazi group, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, invoked the First Amendment in an try to schedule a Nazi rally in Skokie. At the time, Skokie had a significant population of Holocaust survivors. Skokie ultimately at a loose end that case, though the rally was never held.