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  2. North Chicago, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    North Chicago is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of the Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 30,759 at the 2020 census [ 2 ] making it the third-most populous city by population in the county, after Waukegan and Mundelein .

  3. Geography of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...

  4. North Center, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    North Center is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located in the city's North Side.North Center is bordered on the north by Montrose Avenue, on the south by Diversey Parkway, on the west by the Chicago River and on the east by Ravenswood Avenue; it includes the neighborhoods of Northcenter, Roscoe Village, St. Ben's, and Hamlin Park.

  5. Chicago metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    312 Chicago - City (The Loop and central neighborhoods, e.g. the Near North Side) 773 Chicago - City (Everywhere else within the city limits, excluding central area) 872 Chicago - City (overlay for 312 & 773, effective November 7, 2009) 847/224 (North and Northwest Suburbs) 630/331 (Outer Western Suburbs) 708 (South and Near West Suburbs)

  6. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...

  7. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago is traditionally divided into the three "sides" of the North Side, West Side, and South Side by the Chicago River. These three sides are represented by the white stripes on the Flag of Chicago. [12] The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times ...

  8. North Lawndale, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    North Lawndale is one of the 77 community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois, located on its West Side. The area contains the K-Town Historic District , the Foundation for Homan Square, the Homan Square interrogation facility , and the greatest concentration of greystones in the city.

  9. Rogers Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Rogers Park is a community on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois and one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas.Located 9 miles (14 km) north of the Loop along the shore of Lake Michigan, it features green spaces, early 20th-century architecture, live theater, bars, restaurants, and beaches.