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The Suburban Transit Access Route (or STAR Line) was a proposed railway project in northwest and outer suburban Chicago, Illinois, United States.On January 30, 2003, Metra announced plans to build a new service line that would introduce a new fleet of Diesel multiple unit trains (DMUs) to connect nearly 100 communities in the region and form Metra's only suburb-to-suburb service.
Project Starline had been in development for more than five years prior to the official announcement on May 18, 2021. [5] [6] The technology is currently only available in a small number of Google's offices, but the company plans to begin collaborating with certain partners in the next year, [7] particularly partners in the healthcare and media industries.
Historic Central School, Harvard, Illinois. Harvard School District No. 50 operates five schools within the city: Harvard High School: grades 9-12; Harvard Junior High School: grades 6-8; Jefferson Elementary School: grades 4 and 5; Richard B. Crosby Elementary School: grades K-3; Washington School: Pre-K and ECE
Chemung Township is the northwesternmost township of McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It includes the bulk and northern part of the city of Harvard, as well as unincorporated communities: Big Foot Prairie (partly in Wisconsin), Lawrence, and Chemung. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,035 and it contained 3,294 housing units.
WMCW (1600 AM) was a radio station licensed to Harvard, Illinois, United States. The station began broadcasting in 1955 and was originally owned by Esther Blodgett. [1] [3] WMCW was the first station in Illinois owned and operated by a woman. [1] [3] The station's call sign stood for "Milk Capital of the World". [1] [3]
Hawthorne Works was named for Hawthorne, Illinois, a small town that was later incorporated as Cicero. The facility consisted of several buildings and contained a private railroad, Manufacturers' Junction Railway, to move shipments through the plant to the nearby Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad freight depot. In the first decades, the ...
How one of the best restaurants in Peoria, Illinois, became "the most infamous restaurant in the state." 40 years ago, a beloved Peoria restaurant was the source of a historic botulism outbreak ...
The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.