Town |
Population |
Nearby Large City |
Largest Employer |
Famous Residents |
Interesting Tidbit |
Westchester, NY (County) |
950,237 |
New York City |
PepsiCo, with 3,475 employees, followed by IBM, with 2,200 |
Richard Gere, Vanessa Williams, Rob Thomas, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, David Letterman, Eileen Fisher, Beyoncé, Jay-Z… |
Too many. Subscribe to Westchester Magazine. |
West Chester, PA (Borough) |
17,861 |
Philadelphia |
West Chester University, with 3,000 employees |
Golfer Sean O’Hair, Philadelphia Phillies player and 2008 World Series MVP Cole Hamels |
A scene from Marley and Me was filmed on Gay Street. |
Westchester, IL (Village) |
16,824 |
Chicago |
Corn Products, with 800 employees |
Apparently, several mobsters have lived in the town. |
Don’t know any. |
West Chester, OH (Township) |
57,123 |
Cincinnati/Dayton |
Lakota School District, with 1,969 employees |
Republican House Minority Leader John A. Boehner |
Home of U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader John Boehner |
Westchester, CA |
43,005 |
Downtown Los Angeles |
Los Angeles International Airport, with 3,547 employees |
Mila Kunis of That ‘70s Show, Holly Madison of The Girls Next Door, and Beverly Mitchell of 7th Heaven, all attended Loyola Marymount University. |
Entrepreneur Howard Hughes operated Hughes Tool Aircraft Company, and Hughes Airport there. |