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Dorchester is located in southern Macoupin County at (39.08759, -89.88660 It is 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Wilsonville, 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Gillespie, with which it shares a ZIP Code (62033), and 15 miles (24 km) south of Carlinville, the Macoupin county seat.
Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and a suburb of Boston.The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census. [1]Milton is located in the relatively hilly area between the Neponset River and Blue Hills, bounded by Brush Hill to the west, Milton Hill to the east, Blue Hills to the south and the Neponset River to the north.
The islands in Boston Harbor are administered as part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. [1]The Boston Redevelopment Authority, [2] the City Parking Clerk, [3] and the City's Department of Neighborhood Development [4] have also designated their own neighborhoods.
In 1822, [15] the citizens of Boston voted to change the official name from the "Town of Boston" to the "City of Boston", and on March 19, 1822, the people of Boston accepted the charter incorporating the city. [68] At the time Boston was chartered as a city, the population was about 46,226, while the area of the city was only 4.8 sq mi (12 km 2).
Governor Chub Peabody and Mayor John F. Collins at the building's groundbreaking City Hall construction, c. 1960s Boston City Hall, c. 1968 Boston City Hall's interior courtyard in 1981 An aerial view of Boston City Hall in 2019. Boston City Hall was designed by Gerhard Kallmann, a Columbia University professor, [2] and Michael McKinnell, a ...
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Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Boston uses a strong-mayor form of government in which the city council acts as a check against the power of the executive branch, the mayor. The council is responsible for approving the city budget ; monitoring, creating, and abolishing city agencies ; making land use decisions; and approving, amending, or rejecting other legislative proposals.