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2. Robert Allerton Park - Wikipedia

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   The Allerton nature preserve is a National Natural Landmark. The Robert Allerton Park is a 1,517-acre (614 ha) park, nature center, and conference center located in the rural Piatt County township of Willow Branch, [2] (T 18 N, R 5 E) near Monticello, Illinois, on the upper Sangamon River.

3. Goose Island (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   The land that was to become the present-day Goose Island lies on a bend in the Chicago River between North Avenue on the north and Chicago Avenue on the south. In 1853, William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, formed the Chicago Land Company, which purchased land on the east side of the river to excavate clay for brick-making. [5]

4. Baird & Warner - Wikipedia

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   Baird & Warner was named the number one top workplace in the Chicago area in 2017, [18] 2015, and 2014, earning its sixth consecutive Chicago Tribune Top Workplace Award. [19] The brokerage was named the second best large company to work for in the Chicago area in 2016 [ 20 ] and 2013 [ 21 ] and the third best workplace in 2012.

5. List of beaches in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   By midcentury, much leisure shifted to Lake Michigan. The first City of Chicago Public Beach opened in Lincoln Park in 1895. [2] Today, the entire 28 miles (45 km) Chicago lakefront shoreline is reclaimed land, and primarily used for public parks. [3] In the parks, there are 24 sand beaches along the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan. [4]

6. Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area - Wikipedia

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   Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a 2,537-acre (1,027 ha) state park in Illinois. More than half of the state park is a tallgrass prairie maintained as an Illinois Nature Preserve . It is located in Grundy County near the town of Morris approximately 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Chicago .

7. List of ecoregions in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.

8. Geography of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...

9. Real estate - Wikipedia

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   Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.