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  2. Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker - Wikipedia

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    The IllinoisIndiana State Line Boundary Marker is a limestone obelisk that commemorates the establishment of the border between Illinois and Indiana.. Constructed by the Office of the United States Surveyor General in 1838, its current location near the northernmost point between the two states straddles the line between the cities of Hammond and Chicago, near the end of Avenue G on Chicago ...

  3. Geography of Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Evansville, the third largest city in Indiana, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. It is located in a tri-state area that includes Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The southern cities of Clarksville, Jeffersonville, and New Albany are part of the Louisville metropolitan area and are in the area called Kentuckiana.

  4. Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area - Wikipedia

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    The IllinoisIndiana–Kentucky tri-state area within their states. Dark shaded counties were included only by WTVW prior to the rollout of digital television.. The IllinoisIndiana–Kentucky tri-state area is a tri-state area where the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky intersect, and a region of the Upland South.

  5. Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chicago. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.

  6. Illinoi, Illinois and Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Illinoi is an unincorporated community on the Illinois/Indiana state line, United States. [1] Illinoi was originally a station on the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad, later part of the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad, then the New York Central Railroad, then Penn Central Transportation and finally Conrail (by which time there was no passenger service).

  7. Geography of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The western section (west of the Illinois River) was originally part of the Military Tract of 1812 and forms the distinctive western bulge of the state. Central Illinois is characterized by small towns and mid-sized cities. Agriculture, particularly corn and soybeans, figures prominently. Major cities include Peoria, and Springfield (the state ...

  8. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce

  9. 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.