Fun Facts

As of the 2000 US Census, Olympia Fields had 4,637 residents in 1,855 households.

According to Higley1000.com, a Chicago Sun-Times article from the archives (August 15, 1972) listed the status of 200 Chicago suburbs by ranking them on four statistics: percentage college graduates; percentage of families with incomes over $25,000 (that’s not a typo!); median family income; and median years of school. What is striking about the listing is that Olympia Fields, a suburb just south of Flossmoor, was ranked 4th and Flossmoor was ranked 7th.

According to 2000 census data, Graymoor is a small subdivision with a mean household income of $169,321.