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Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...
Location of the Bensenville Yard below Chicago O'Hare International Airport Container terminal on the east side in 2008; the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) has crossed the Bensenville Yard here since the 1960s. Today, the 5 km long Bensenville Yard is divided into an east and west section, between which the now-demolished hump and the signal box are ...
Bensenville is a village located near O'Hare International Airport in DuPage County, Illinois, with a portion of the town in Cook County. As of the 2020 census , the village population was 18,813. First known as Tioga, it was formally established as Bensenville in 1873 along the Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific ) right-of-way.
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898 Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Addison (partial); Bensenville (vast majority); Elk Grove Village (partial); Elmhurst (north quarter); Itasca (east three-quarters); Lombard (north edge); Villa Park (partial); Wood Dale; The south west edge of O'Hare in the city of Chicago shown on the map in beige is a separate entity comprising a portion of O'Hare International Airport, and is not part of this township.
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Thomson is a village along Illinois Route 84 near the Mississippi River in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 590 at the 2010 census, up from 559 at the 2000 census. Just north of the village is the United States Penitentiary, Thomson, a mostly-unused former state prison, purchased by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in ...
Thompson Township is one of 23 townships in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 841 and it contained 1,036 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 841 and it contained 1,036 housing units.