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  2. Thornton Quarry - Wikipedia

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    Overhead view of the quarry. Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide, and 450 feet (140 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry ...

  3. San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, the City of San Diego incorporated the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park as part of a city-operated park that stretched more than 2-miles offshore. Responsibility for maintenance was to be shared by the City of San Diego's Department of Parks and Recreation and the California Department of Fish and Game. A 514-acre ecological reserve ...

  4. San Elijo State Beach - Wikipedia

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    San Elijo State Beach is near San Diego, by San Elijo Lagoon, adjacent to Cardiff State Beach. [2] San Elijo State Beach offers swimming, surfing, boogie-boarding, skim-boarding, showers, picnicking, and camping. Campsite reservations are made through Reserve America, and sites book up to 6 months in advance. The narrow, bluff-backed stretch of ...

  5. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Thornton Quarry, just south of Chicago, Illinois. One of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles wide, and up to 450 feet deep, site of a Silurian reef. Quarried since 1836. The quarry also acts as an emergency flood control reservoir as part of Chicago Deep Tunnel project.

  6. Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians

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    After the band was displaced from Capitan Grande, this new reservation was created by executive order in 1934. The reservation is about 1,609 acres (6.51 km 2) large. Approximately 289 of the 394 enrolled members live on the reservation. [5] The reservation is home to scrub oaks and chaparral.

  7. Big cross-border tunnel is found linking Tijuana, San Diego - AOL

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    A law enforcement officer stands by the opening of a cross-border tunnel on Monday, May 16, 2022 between Mexico's Tijuana into the San Diego area.

  8. Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians

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    It takes its name from the Mexican land grant Cañada de San Vicente y Mesa del Padre Barona, named in turn after Padre José Barona, a friar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá from 1798 until he transferred to Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1811. [6] Founded in 1932, the reservation covers 5,181 acres (20.97 km 2). Much of the highland valley has ...

  9. Feds bust drug smuggling ring using tunnel under US ... - AOL

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