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  2. Palestine, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Palestine was chartered in 1811, while the area still belonged to Virginia, and is one of the oldest towns in the State of Illinois. It was named the seat of Crawford County in 1818. [6] Elections in 1843 moved the county seat to a new site, which would become the town of Robinson. It was officially incorporated as an Illinois town in 1855. [3] [7]

  3. Palatine, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Palatine (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a northwestern residential suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 67,908. [4] As of the 2010 Census, it was the seventh-largest community in Cook County [5] and the 18th-largest in Illinois. [6]

  4. Chicago Lawn, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Lawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the southwest side of the city. Its community neighbors include Gage Park, West Englewood, Ashburn, and West Lawn. It is bounded by Bell Avenue on the east, Central Park Avenue on the west, 59th Street on the north, and 75th Street on the south, and is 13 km (8 ...

  5. List of counties in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time. Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created ...

  6. List of Illinois townships - Wikipedia

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    List of Illinois townships. Appearance. Counties that have no townships. Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government.

  7. Robinson, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    GNIS feature ID. 2396390 [ 1 ] Wikimedia Commons. Robinson, Illinois. Website. cityofrobinson.com. Robinson in 1936. Robinson is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Illinois, United States. [ 3 ] The population was 7,150 at the 2020 census, down from 7,713 at the 2010 census.

  8. Collar counties - Wikipedia

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    224, 331, 630, 779, 815, 847. Collar counties is a colloquialism for DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties, the five counties of Illinois that border Cook County, which is home to Chicago. The collar counties are part of the Chicago metropolitan area and comprise many of the area's suburbs. While Lake County, Indiana, also borders Cook ...

  9. State of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.