Lockport Heights, IL

Lockport Heights is an unincorporated Will County CDP pressed against the west, south, and east sides of Lockport. Illinois Route 171 runs along the northwest edge, putting the community three miles from Lockport's center and on the same road that continues northeast toward Chicago. The map gives the place its character: residential streets sit in the orbit of a larger city, while the CDP itself has no separate municipal government. It is the kind of place whose daily errands and addresses are local even when the service network is regional.

School lines help fill in that map. Lockport Heights is served by Will County School District 92 for elementary grades and Lockport Township High School District 205 for high school. District 92's administrative offices are in Lockport, reinforcing the connection between the CDP and its surrounding city. The community first appeared as a CDP before the 2020 census, so its official identity is relatively new even though the roads, houses, and proximity to Lockport are older. In practice, Lockport Heights reads as a residential edge of Lockport with its own census boundary.