![]() Mud Lake extended nearly to the southern border of today's Berwyn, and the land regularly flooded during heavy rains. However, few people were interested in grassy marshland. Baldwin purchased 347 acres (1.40 km 2) of land, bordered by what is now Ogden Avenue, Ridgeland Avenue, 31st Street, and Harlem Avenue, in hopes of developing a rich and aristocratic community called "LaVergne". This thoroughfare became what is now Ogden Avenue in South Berwyn. The trail had been used as a French and Indian trade route and more recently as a stagecoach route to Lisle. ![]() In 1846, the first land in "Berwyn" was deeded to Theodore Doty, who built the 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) Plank Road from Chicago to Ottawa along the Ottawa Trail. A branch of the Trail to Green Bay crossed Berwyn at what is now Riverside Drive, and the Ottawa Trail spanned the southern end of the city. ![]() The most important trails converged near the Chicago portage, and two notable routes crossed what is today Berwyn. History īefore being settled, the land that is now Berwyn was traversed by Native American trails. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 57,250. Berwyn / ˈ b ɜːr w ɪ n/ is a suburban city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, coterminous with Berwyn Township, which was formed in 1908 after breaking off from Cicero Township.
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