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Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. [2] The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue. [3]
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
Gebhard Woods State Park: Grundy: 30 0.12 1934: Nettle Creek: Giant City State Park: Jackson, Union: 1,100 4.5 1927: Little Grassy Lake, Indian Creek: Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park: Bureau, Lee, Whiteside, Rock Island, Henry: 60,314 244.08 1970: Hennepin Canal: 104.5-mile (168.2 km) linear park (W To Moline then N to Rock Falls vic ...
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...
Official Manual State of Missouri 2005-2006. Issued by the Secretary of State. Jefferson City, Missouri. "Missouri Revised Statutes — Chapter 72: Classification and Consolidation of Cities, Towns and Villages". Missouri General Assembly. August 28, 2011. "Missouri Revised Statutes — Chapter 77: Third Class Cities". Missouri General Assembly ...
One of the city's best-known earthen structures, "Big Mound" was razed in the mid-1800s following a sale of the land to the North Missouri Railroad. [5] In preparation for the 1904 World's Fair, an additional sixteen mounds were destroyed. [2] The mounds in Forest Park were mapped and excavated and had human remains associated with them.
Frank Holten State Recreation Area is an urban Illinois state park on 1,080 acres (437 ha) in unincorporated Centreville Township, St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is located less than five miles southeast of the Gateway Arch in Greater St. Louis .
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