Bensenville is a village located near O'Hare International Airport in DuPage County, Illinois, with a portion of the town in Cook County. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 18,813.
First known as Tioga, it was formally established as Bensenville in 1873 along the Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific) right-of-way. The community is named after Bensen, Germany, a village in the municipality of Sudwalde. A post office was established in 1873, but because there was an existing "Benson", the suffix "ville" was added.
In 2007, homes and businesses were acquired by the City of Chicago for its O'Hare Modernization Program.
Geography
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Bensenville has a total area of , of which (or 99.09%) is land and (or 0.91%) is water.
Demographics
Racial and ethnic composition
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Bensenville village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition<br><small></small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>
!Pop 2000
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|10,779
|7,857
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7,065
|52.06%
|42.81%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |37.55%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|537
|590
|style='background: #ffffe6; |735
|2.59%
|3.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.91%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|21
|31
|style='background: #ffffe6; |23
|0.10%
|0.17%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.12%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|1,307
|872
|style='background: #ffffe6; |921
|6.31%
|4.75%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.90%
|-
|Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|5
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.02%
|0.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|36
|41
|style='background: #ffffe6; |54
|0.17%
|0.22%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.29%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|328
|178
|style='background: #ffffe6; |317
|1.58%
|0.97%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.69%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|7,690
|8,781
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9,698
|37.14%
|47.85%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |51.55%
|-
|Total
|20,703
|18,352
|style='background: #ffffe6; |18,813
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Bensenville had a population of 18,813 people, with 4,274 families residing in the village. The median age was 37.0 years. 23.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 14.0% were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females, there were 105.3 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.1 males age 18 and over.
100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 6,538 households, of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 45.0% were married-couple households, 23.5% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 23.9% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 27.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. the top employers in the village are:
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
| US Foods
|400
|-
|2
| Fortune Fish & Gourmet
|350
|-
|3
| Expeditors International
|300
|-
|4
| AMTAB Manufacturing Co.
|250
|-
|5
| Victor Envelope Manufacturing Co.
|220
|-
|6
| Allmetal, Inc
|200
|-
|6
| Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.
|200
|-
|7
| Ewing-Doherty Mechanical Inc.
|200
|-
|8
| UPS Freight Services
|200
|-
|8
| The Protectoseal Co.
|200
|}
Education
Bensenville School District 100:
- Fenton High School which serves both Bensenville and Wood Dale
Bensenville School District 2:
- Blackhawk Middle School
- Tioga School
- W.A. Johnson School
Private:
- Zion-Concord Lutheran School, Private 3-year-old Preschool through 8th grade.
Transportation
thumb|right|The "Midwest Hiawatha" traveling through Bensenville, 1943
Bensenville has a station on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin and Chicago (at Union Station). From there, passengers can connect to Amtrak trains.
Pace provides bus service on Routes 223, 319 and 332 connecting Bensenville to Elmhurst, Rosemont, and other destinations.
In popular culture
Bensenville is the site of Victory Auto Wreckers, a auto recycling facility on Green Street which has repeatedly aired the "door-falling-off-the-car" commercial, starring Bob Zajdel, on Chicago television stations since 1981.
Bensenville is mentioned by name in the movie Flatliners, and a scene was filmed at the old green house that was next to Blackhawk Junior High School in 1990.
Sister cities
- Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico
Notable people
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- Daren Dochterman is an art designer and illustrator for over 35 feature films.
- Marcin Kleczynski, Polish-born Malwarebytes CEO who grew up in Bensenville.
- Richard Oruche, basketball player for the Nigerian National Basketball Team.
- William A. Redmond was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- Genevieve "Audrey" Wagner was a baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League