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Hillside is a Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 21,747.

The town is split between area codes 908 and 973.

Hillside was created from parcels of land carved out of neighboring Newark, Elizabeth, and Union. It originally contained the farms of Woodruff, Conant and Saybrook. Local streets still bear their names.

Hillside was incorporated shortly after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1910, and for that reason, the team nickname of Hillside High School is the "Comets." Several local businesses take the name "Comet" for the same reason. The Hillside Historical Society was established in the 1980's in the Woodruff home on Conant Street, perhaps the township's oldest. Jean-Ray Turner, a reporter for the Elizabeth Daily Journal, wrote Along the Upper Road, in the 1970's, a book of the history of Hillside.