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Pottery from the Palos Site Pottery – total of 524 pot sherds were recovered, mostly in very poor preservation. Only 4 vessels could be identified via usable rim sherds. 16 cordmarked grit-tempered body sherds were thought to represent Langford Ware, which is an Upper Mississippian culture based in northwestern Illinois .
The 6,600-acre Mount Forest Island area was, in 2021, designated an Urban Night Sky Place by the International Dark-Sky Association. It is the largest such Urban Night Sky Place designation in the world. [6] [7] Communities adjoining the preserves are Palos Hills, Palos Park, Hickory Hills, and Willow Springs.
Northwestern Illinois borders the states of Iowa to the west and Wisconsin to the north. The largest city in this region, located near the eastern edge, is Rockford. Rockford's Metropolitan Area includes Winnebago County and Boone County (to the east), with an estimated 2009 population of 353,722. [1] Former US President Ronald Reagan was born ...
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Palos Township is bordered on the north by Lyons Township, on the east by Worth Township, on the south by Orland Township, and on the west by Lemont Township.The northwest border with Lyons Township follows the Des Plaines River, directly adjacent to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (managed by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) which connects Lake Michigan with ...
Surveys conducted in the 1980s found strontium-90 in the soil at Plot M, trace amounts of tritium in nearby wells, [3] [4] and plutonium, technetium, caesium, and uranium in the area. In 1994, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory yielded to public pressure and earmarked $24.7 million and $3.4 million ...
Willow Springs is located on the banks of the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, adjacent to the Palos Forest Preserves. [4]According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Willow Springs has a total area of 4.25 square miles (11.01 km 2), of which 4.15 square miles (10.75 km 2) (or 97.55%) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km 2) (or 2.45%) is water.
Palos, Illinois refers to a group of places in Cook County, Illinois, United States, south of Chicago. Two cities and one village within Palos Township along with the township constitute the group. The greater Palos area has a total population of 34,845.