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How Many Ashley Madison Cheaters Live in the South Suburbs?
Tens of thousands. Is your hometown home to a lot of them? Check out our list.

After personal data of the website’s 30 million clients was leaked, a Madrid-based digital agency named Tecnilógica created an interactive map from the information that identifies Ashley Madison users by location worldwide (after stripping out names, addresses and emails).
“Sex sells and forbidden sex clearly sells more,” Tecnilógica CEO Jorge Gutiérrez told Mashable. “The local aspect of the visualization helps with the spread.”
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Gutiérrez said it’s natural curiosity to wonder about your neighbors and make comparisons.
“To be honest, the first thing I did when we got the map up was search for my city and do the same thing.”
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The data reflects the location of user accounts but doesn’t reflect whether those accounts were ever actually put to use. Also, 80 percent of the registered accounts belong to men. The data was leaked in July by a group of hackers called “The Impact Team.”
South Suburban Cheaters
Here are the south suburban communities ranked by the total number of registered user names, as identified by the ZIP codes of their customers’ hometowns.
- Lockport: 5,762
- Tinley Park: 3,555
- Orland Park: 3,296
- Oak Lawn: 2,614
- Chicago Heights: 2,126
- New Lenox: 1,707
- Oak Forest: 1,372
- Glenwood: 1,356
- Mokena: 1,233
- Calumet City: 1,204
- Park Forest: 1,055
- Alsip: 1,050
- Lemont: 1,036
- Crete: 820
- Blue Island: 808
- Bridgeview: 782
- Matteson: 766
- Evergreen Park: 747
- Dolton: 730
- Homer Glen: 703
- South Holland: 677
- Palos Hills: 666
- Chicago Ridge: 657
- Country Club Hills: 599
- Hickory Hills: 553
- Justice: 553
- Palos Heights: 509
- Worth: 480
- Steger: 443
- Willow Springs: 405
- Monee: 384
- Palos Park: 375
- Robbins: 331
- Burnham: 287
- Peotone: 255
- Hometown: 239
- Posen: 216
- Olympia Fields: 176
- Sauk Village: 19
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