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  2. Tri-Cities, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Tri-Cities, or Tri-City area, is a vernacular region that is situated between the large cities of Aurora and Elgin, Illinois, and encompasses the cities of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles. A " vernacular region " is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual ...

  3. Quad Cities - Wikipedia

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    The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, later four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf (the fifth to be included) in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline (the fourth to be included) in northwestern Illinois.

  4. Tri-City Community Unit School District 1 - Wikipedia

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    Tri-City Schools, located off I-72 and 10–12 minutes from Springfield, serve a 97 square miles (250 km 2) area. Primary towns include Buffalo , Dawson , and Mechanicsburg . The school and campus are located at Buffalo and house grades Pre-K - 12 in one large facility.

  5. Fox Valley (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    The Fox Valley—also commonly known as the Fox River Valley—is a region centered on the Fox River of Northern Illinois, along the western edges of the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] The region extends from the village of Antioch , in far northern Illinois, to the city of Ottawa in the south. [ 1 ]

  6. History of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.

  7. St. Charles, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    St. Charles is a city [5] in DuPage and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.It lies roughly 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago on Illinois Route 64.Per the 2020 census, the population was 33,081. [6]

  8. 1925 Tri-State tornado outbreak - Wikipedia

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    The outbreak included the Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest disaster in Illinois, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, and the second-deadliest registered in world history. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The 219-mile-long (352 km) track left by the tornado, as it crossed from southeastern Missouri, through southern Illinois, and then into southwestern ...

  9. Tri-Cities - Wikipedia

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    Tri-City, San Diego County, California, Oceanside, Vista, and Carlsbad; Tri-City area in the San Francisco Bay Area refers to the three neighboring cities Fremont, Newark, and Union City. Tri-Cities, Georgia, consisting of College Park, East Point, and Hapeville, all of which are near Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport