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Blue Island

(Encyclopedia)Blue Island, city (2020 pop. 22,549), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential and industrial suburb of Chicago, on the Little Calumet River; inc. 1843. It has ...

Calumet City

(Encyclopedia)Calumet City, city (2020 pop. 36,033), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb in the greater Chicago metropolitan area, near Ind.; settled 1868, inc. 1911. Once he...

Bensenville

(Encyclopedia)Bensenville bĕnˈsənvĭl [key], village (2020 pop. 17,740), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a ...

Berwyn

(Encyclopedia)Berwyn bûrˈwĭn [key], city (2020 pop. 57,250), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of ...

Cicero, town, United States

(Encyclopedia)Cicero, town (2020 pop. 85,268), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial and residential suburb adjoining Chicago; inc. 1867. A largely white enclave, it was o...

Elk Grove Village

(Encyclopedia)Elk Grove Village, village (2020 pop. 32,812), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956. With a population of c.100 at the tim...

Glencoe, village, United States

(Encyclopedia)Glencoe glĕnˈkō [key], residential village (2020 pop. 8,849), Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake M...

Gisborne

(Encyclopedia)Gisborne gĭzˈbôrn [key], city, East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a ...

Palatine, village, United States

(Encyclopedia)Palatine pălˈətīn [key], village (1990 pop. 39,253), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1869. Primarily residential, the growing village manufactures a variety of products, such as machine tools and industri...

Brookfield

(Encyclopedia)Brookfield. 1 Village (2020 pop. 19,476), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. The noted Chicago Zoological Park (Brookfield ...