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Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
The community's name most likely was a transfer from Moscow, in Russia. [4] A post office was established at Moscow in 1827, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. [5] The town was struck on June 3, 2008, by an EF3 tornado which destroyed its landmark 19th-century Moscow Covered Bridge over the Big Flatrock river. [6]
A map from the 1840s to the 1850s in the Quaker Collection of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, clearly shows a county named Richardville, and a town Richardville, at the site of present-day Russiaville. [citation needed] Some local history has suggested "Rouchardville" as the earlier spelling, but Richardville is correct. [citation needed]
South Chicago Heights is located at (41.483375, −87.637461 [ 3 ] According to the 2010 census, South Chicago Heights has a total area of 1.596 square miles (4.13 km 2 ), of which 1.58 square miles (4.09 km 2 ) (or 99%) is land and 0.016 square miles (0.04 km 2 ) (or 1%) is water.
A Magnitude 5.2 quake took place in the Wabash zone [1] on April 18, 2008 at 09:37 UTC (04:37 CDT), about 41 miles NNW of Evansville, Indiana, near the community of Bellmont, Illinois. [2] It was felt all across southern Illinois, southern Indiana, western and central Kentucky and eastern Missouri, waking people up in Chicago and St. Louis ...
Evansville, the third largest city in Indiana, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. It is located in a tri-state area that includes Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The southern cities of Clarksville, Jeffersonville, and New Albany are part of the Louisville metropolitan area and are in the area called Kentuckiana.
The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a limestone obelisk that commemorates the establishment of the border between Illinois and Indiana.. Constructed by the Office of the United States Surveyor General in 1838, its current location near the northernmost point between the two states straddles the line between the cities of Hammond and Chicago, near the end of Avenue G on Chicago ...
It is a southeastern suburb of Chicago. St. John was founded in 1837. The population was 14,850 at the 2010 census. In 2009, St. John ranked 48th among CNN's top 100 places to live in the United States. [7] In 2014, St. John was ranked as the 4th safest place in Indiana by Movoto Real Estate. [8]