Wood Dale, Illinois, United States

🇺🇸 Wood Dale is a city in Addison Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States.

History Wood Dale was originally known as Lester's Station, after John Lester, an early settler.

Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Wood Dale has a total area of 4.89 square miles (12.67 km²), of which 4.78 square miles (12.38 km²) (or 97.91%) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km²) (or 2.09%) is water. Wood Dale shares borders with Elk Grove Village (on the north), Bensenville (east), Addison (south, south-west) and Itasca (west).

Economy The top 5 employing industry sectors in Wood Dale are manufacturing (13.6%), retail trade (11.0%), health care (9.7%), wholesale trade (5.4%) and administration (8.4%). A plurality of the workforce commutes from Chicago, followed by Wood Dale itself, Elk Grove Village and Bensenville. The top 5 employing industry sectors of community residents are wholesale trade (20.3%), manufacturing (18%), manufacturing (11.3%), administration (10.6%) and healthcare (7.5%). The median income for a household in the city was $57,509, and the median income for a family was $62,289. Males had a median income of $45,884 versus $35,247 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,507. About 2.9% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over. At one time Claire's had a distribution facility in Wood Dale. That function is now handled by its Hoffman Estates office.

Principal employers According to Wood Dale's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city include: 1 Power Solutions 730

2 Videojet; 3 Quest Diagnostics; 4 Tempco Electric Heater; 5 AAR Corp; 6 C. H. Robinson; 7 NEP Electronics, Inc.; 8 AmazonFresh; 9 Topgolf; 10 OPTO International, Inc.

Transport Wood Dale has a station on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station). Illinois Route 390 is in the city's corporate limits near the northern border of the city and has an exit to Wood Dale Road.