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Chicken Bristle is an unincorporated community located in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Chicken Bristle is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) northwest of Tuscola . Chicken Bristle has been noted for its unusual place name .
Goose Island is a 160-acre (65 ha) artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across at its widest point.
The town was founded on a 3,800-acre (15 km 2) tract of land in the southwestern part of the county which Allerton purchased in 1880. It had formerly been known as Twin Grove Farm (because of two very similar 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) groves of trees in the area).
Meriden is an unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois, and is located east of Mendota. The community has East 7th Street running north–south through the community, and North 44th Street making a T-intersection south of Meriden with East 7th Street. U.S. Highway 34 runs about an eighth of a mile south of Meriden.
Kickapoo State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 2,842 acres (1,150 ha) in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Located between Oakwood, Illinois and Danville, Illinois, this park is easily accessible through route I-74.
The town's age distribution consisted of 26.0% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 21% from 45 to 64, and 20.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.8 years.
Gurnee (/ ɡ ər ˈ n iː / ghər-NEE) is a village and suburb in Lake County, Illinois, United States.Its population was 30,706 as of the 2020 census. [2] It borders the city of Waukegan, and is a popular tourist attraction within the Chicago metropolitan area.
Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery Church is the former burial site of Peter II of Yugoslavia, who until 2013 was the only European monarch buried on U.S. soil.. The land that is now Libertyville was the property of the Illinois River Potawatomi Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S ...