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2. Riverview Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   October 3, 1967; 56 years ago (1967-10-03) Slogan. "Laugh Your Troubles Away!" "Chicago's famous Amusement Park". [1] Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech ...

3. Volo Auto Museum - Wikipedia

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   Website. volocars.com. Established in 1960 by the Grams family, the Volo Auto Museum (since renamed simply the Volo Museum) is an automobile museum and collector car dealer in the Chicago suburb of Volo, Illinois, US. [1] The museum contains an exhibit of collectors' autos from vintage to modern classics, with the main focus being American cars ...

4. 1967 Chicago blizzard - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26–27, 1967, with a record-setting 23 inches (58 cm) snow fall in Chicago and its suburbs before the storm abated the next morning. As of 2024, it remains the greatest snowfall in one storm in Chicago history. [1][2][3][4] As the blizzard was a surprise ...

5. Illinois Railway Museum - Wikipedia

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   The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its

6. Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.

7. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Community areas in Chicago. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes. Census data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of urban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing ...