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is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 28,848 at the 2007 census.
The current mayor of Niles is Robert M. Callero.
The village of Niles was incorporated on August 24, 1899. The village had a population of 500 people at that time.
Along with neighboring Skokie, Illinois, and several other suburbs, Niles is partly in Niles Township , from whence it draws its name. It should not to be confused with "Niles Centre," the original name of Skokie.
There is no clear indication of the origin of the name "Niles." In 1929 the Chicago Tribune ran an article opining that the name was taken from the Niles Register, a newspaper published in the 1820s out of Washington, DC and distributed nationally.
Niles was the first community in Illinois and one of the first in the United States to establish free ambulance service, in 1946.