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  2. Great Lakes region - Wikipedia

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    Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...

  3. Naval Station Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    Naval Station Great Lakes is the largest military installation in Illinois and the largest training station in the Navy. The base has 1,153 buildings situated on 1,628 acres (6.59 km 2 ) and has 69 mi (111 km) of roadway to provide access to the base's facilities.

  4. Blue Island, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located approximately 16 miles (26 km) south of Chicago's Loop. [3] Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States Census.

  5. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Great Lakes Water Wars. Island Press. ISBN 978-1-61091-077-4. Beltran, R.; et al. (1995). The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book. Environmental Protection Agency. ISBN 0-662-23441-3. Coon, W.F.; Sheets, R.A. (2006). Estimate of Ground Water in Storage in the Great Lakes Basin. Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5180.

  6. Sky Financial Group - Wikipedia

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    GLB Bancorp operated Great Lakes Bank, with 13 branches in Lake and Cuyahoga counties. [12] October 24, 2002: Metropolitan Financial Corp. Metropolitan Bank was a $1.5 billion bank that operated 30 offices in the Cleveland area. Sky now has 254 financial centers and $12.5 billion in assets, making it the 54th largest bank holding company in the ...

  7. Shields Township, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Shields Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census , its population was 39,062. [ 2 ] The Naval Station Great Lakes is located in this township.

  8. Lake Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Lake Chicago was a prehistoric proglacial lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five Great Lakes.Formed about 13,000 years ago and fed by retreating glaciers, it drained southwest through the Chicago Outlet River.

  9. Illinois and Michigan Canal - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. In Illinois , it ran 96 miles (154 km) from the Chicago River in Bridgeport , Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle - Peru .