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  2. Blue Island, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located approximately 16 miles (26 km) south of Chicago's Loop. [3] Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States Census.

  3. Blue Island Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Blue Island Avenue is a street in the city of Chicago, Illinois that once led to a ridge of land that early pioneers gave the name "Blue Island" because at a distance it looked like an island in the prairie. The blue color was attributed to atmospheric scattering or to blue flowers growing on the ridge. [1]

  4. Washington Heights, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Washington Heights is the 73rd of Chicago's 77 community areas.Located 12 miles (19 km) from the Loop, it is on the city's far south side.Washington Heights is considered part of the Blue Island Ridge, along with the nearby community areas of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood, and the village of Blue Island.

  5. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School (Blue Island, Illinois)

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower High School (Eisenhower, EHS, or Ike) is a public four-year high school located in Blue Island, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 218 along with sister schools Alan B. Shepard High School and Harold L. Richards High School.

  6. Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Other township municipalities include Hometown and Merrionette Park, as well as portions of Blue Island, Crestwood, Worth, Palos Heights, Robbins and Bridgeview. Worth Township's approximate borders are Harlem Avenue ( Illinois Route 43 ) on the west, 87th Street on the north, Western Avenue on the east and 135th Street on the south.

  7. Calumet River - Wikipedia

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    Calumet Sag Channel, Blue Island. The Cal-Sag Channel (short for "Calumet-Saganashkee Channel") is a navigation canal in southern Cook County, Illinois. It serves as a channel between the Little Calumet River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. It is 16 miles (26 km) long and was dug over an 11-year period, from 1911 until 1922.

  8. 119th Street station - Wikipedia

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    119th Street is one of four Metra railroad stations in Blue Island, Illinois along the Beverly Branch of the Rock Island District Line, and five within Blue Island generally. It is 14.8 miles (23.8 km) from LaSalle Street Station , the northern terminus of the line, [ 2 ] and is named after 119th Street and located between 119th Street and ...

  9. Libby, McNeill and Libby Building - Wikipedia

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    The Libby, McNeill and Libby Building is an industrial building on Western Avenue in Blue Island, Illinois. It was designed by Philip Larmon and built between 1917 and 1919. It originally served as Libby, McNeill and Libby's main Midwest processing plant. [2]