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Lemont is a village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,000 as of the 2010 census. Lemont has a substantial immigrant population. Lemont is home to the CITGO Refinery, Argonne National Laboratory and other heavy industrial sites.
The ratio of number of residents in Lemont to the number of sex offenders is 2,047 to 1. The number of registered sex offenders compared to the number of residents in this city is smaller than the state average. Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Bolingbrook, IL (5.6 miles , pop. 56,321).