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Schiller Park

(Encyclopedia) Schiller Park, village (1990 pop. 11,189), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1914. O'Hare International Airport is to the west, and the county forest preserve is…

cornflower

(Encyclopedia) cornflower, common herb (Centaurea cyanus) of the family Asteraceae (aster family). It is a garden flower in the United States but a weed in the grainfields of Europe. It is called…

Melrose Park

(Encyclopedia) Melrose Park, village (1990 pop. 20,859), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. It has large railroad yards and shops, steel mills, and factories that make a…

Homewood

(Encyclopedia) Homewood. 1 City (2020 pop. 26,414), Jefferson co., N central Ala., a residential suburb of Birmingham; inc. 1921. 2 Village (2020…

Peg Bracken Biography

cookbook writerDied: October 20, 2007 (Portland, Oregon) Best Known as: wrote the best-selling cookbook "I Hate to Cook Book" Former advertising executive who…

Glyndebourne Festival

(Encyclopedia) Glyndebourne FestivalGlyndebourne Festivalglīnˈdəbərn, glīnˈbôrn [key], opera festival given each summer since 1934 on the estate of John Christie at Glyndebourne, near Lewes, Sussex,…

fleabane

(Encyclopedia) fleabane, any plant of the genus Erigeron, widely distributed herbs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), especially abundant in temperate and mountainous regions of North America.…

Adam de la Halle

(Encyclopedia) Adam de la HalleAdam de la HalleädäNˈ də lä äl [key] or Adam le BossuAdam le Bossulə bōsüˈ [key], c.1240–1287, French dramatist and poet-musician, one of the great trouvères. Many of…

Chicago Heights

(Encyclopedia) Chicago Heights, city (2020 pop. 28,860), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an…

Flattery, Cape

(Encyclopedia) Flattery, Cape, NW Wash., at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait; discovered in 1778 by Capt. James Cook. A lighthouse and the reservation of the Makah people are on the cape, where…