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  2. List of city nicknames in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The City in the Suburbs [26] The City to Watch [27] Evanston – Heavenston [28] Freeport – Pretzel City, USA [29] Griggsville – Purple Martin Capital of the World [21] [30] Glen Ellyn – Babcock's Grove [31] The Dirty Six-Thirty [5] Huntley – The Friendly Village with Country Charm [32] Joliet. City of Champions [33] City of "Snap and ...

  3. List of time offsets by U.S. state and territory - Wikipedia

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    East Tennessee, except Bledsoe, Cumberland, and Marion Counties: UTC−05:00 EST Eastern Standard Time UTC−06:00 CT Most of state: UTC−06:00 CST Central Standard Time Texas: UTC−06:00 CT Yes Most of state: UTC−06:00 CST Central Standard Time UTC−07:00 MT El Paso and Hudspeth counties: UTC−07:00 MST Mountain Standard Time U.S. Minor ...

  4. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The city of Rockford, Illinois's third-largest city and center of the state's fourth largest metropolitan area, sits along Interstates 39 and 90 some 75 mi (121 km) northwest of Chicago. The Quad Cities region, located along the Mississippi River in northern Illinois, had a population of 381,342 in 2011.

  5. Every state's nickname and where it comes from - AOL

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    Illinois might be home to the hustle and bustle of the third most populous city in the U.S., Chicago, but the northern two-thirds of the state was built on grassland shaped by glaciers moving ...

  6. Central Time Zone - Wikipedia

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    The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean islands. [1]In parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and several border municipalities in Mexico), the Central Time Zone is affected by two time designations yearly: Central Standard Time (CST) is observed from ...

  7. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The twelve cases where USPS and USCG abbreviations differ are listed below and marked in bold red in the table above; they include three inland states with a small Coast Guard contingent. These twelve abbreviations were changed to avoid conflicting with the ISO 3166 two-digit country codes.

  8. List of flags by color combination - Wikipedia

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    The five major colors of European heraldry (black, red, green, blue, and purple) are sorted next. Miscellaneous colors (murrey, tan, grey, and pink) are sorted last. Similar colors are grouped together to make navigation of this list practical.

  9. Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.