About the town » Kenilworth, Cook County, Illinois, United States

Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 15 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,513. It is the newest of the nine suburban North Shore communities bordering Lake Michigan, and is the only one developed as a planned community. Kenilworth has a reputation as being the wealthiest, the whitest and the most exclusive community in the Midwest ("... although high income is the prerequisite, not race. "). In January 2011, Forbes. com ranked Kenilworth as the second most affluent neighborhood in the United States, naming it "the most exclusive neighborhood in the Midwest, with estimated median household income of $247,000. Even after the housing slump the average house in Kenilworth sells for about $1 million."