Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois

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Worth Township is a township in Cook County, Illinois, United States to the southwest of Chicago. Founded in 1849, when the county voted to subdivide itself into townships. With a population exceeding 152,000 people as of 2004, it is the third largest township in Illinois.

The county covers 31.9 square miles holding about 60,500 dwellings. The populations is 83.8% white non-hispanic, 7.8% hispanic/latino and 5.1% black.^[1]

Cities in the township include:

As well as parts of:

1 Boundaries
2 Record pension
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

Worth Township is bordered by Harlem Avenue (Illinois Route 43) on the west, 87th Street on the north, Western Avenue on the east and 135th Street on the South. The township, however, does not include the parts of the city of Chicago (namely, zip code 60655) that lay within these boundaries.

To the north of Worth Township is Stickney Township but mostly just the city of Chicago, Illinois, to the west is Palos Township, to the south is Bremen Township, and to the east is the small Calumet Township, but is mostly just the city of Chicago, Illinois.

[edit] Record pension

In 2002 Lawrence Hupe, the Worth Township school treasurer retired with one of the largest governemnt pensions in Illimois after receiving annual bonuses exceeding 25% of his salary in the last five years of his 25-year service. At $153,835 Hupe's pension exceeded the state governor's salary. His employer, the Worth Township Board of School Trustees, reported to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund that Hupe took home an extra $302,000 above his salary between 1998 and 2002. Hupe claimed that the additional payments were in lieu of unused annual leave. Hupe's successor's was paid a salary of $87,500, just 57% of Hupe's pension.^[2]