Lyons Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 111,688.[2] Lyons Township was established in 1850. The nearby village of Lyons is often incorrectly referred to as "Lyons Township"
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, Lyons Township covers an area of 36.95 square miles (95.7 km2); of this, 36.38 square miles (94.2 km2) (98.44 percent) is land and 0.57 square miles (1.5 km2) (1.56 percent) is water.
The boundaries of Lyons Township are Harlem Avenue on the east; the Cook-DuPage County boundary (County Line Road) on the west; the line of 87th Street on the south, except west of Willow Springs, where it follows the Des Plaines River to the Cook-DuPage county line; and the line of 39th Street (Southview Avenue, Brewster Avenue) on the north. There are eighteen municipalities in or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-seven square miles of territory:
The township contains these seven cemeteries: Archer Woods Memorial Park, Bethania, LaGrange, Lithuanian National, Resurrection, Saint Johns and Lyonsville.
