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Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side.. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street and from the Illinois Central ...
Location and general description of property.—The railroad of the Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad Company, herein called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gauge, steam-operated, switching railroad, located in and about Chicago Heights, Ill. It consists of 6.697 miles of main track and 13.298 miles of yard tracks and sidings.
With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009.
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Hodgkins has a total area of 2.77 square miles (7.17 km 2), of which 2.71 square miles (7.02 km 2) (or 98.05%) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2) (or 1.95%) is water. [6] It is located just over 3 miles (5 km) from Chicago's western city limits. [citation needed]
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
Bedford Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and is an industrial suburb of Chicago. The population was 602 at the 2020 census. The population was 602 at the 2020 census. Bedford Park consists of a small residential area and vast amounts of heavy industry sprawling to the east and a small amount to the west.
Located at Chicago's city limits, it borders the village of Elmwood Park to the west. Consistent with the area's history [2] [3] the majority of land use in the area is single family residential and transportation with acreage of 250 acres and 193 acres respectively. Other land uses include 63 acres of multi family residential, 55 acres of ...