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Pottery from the Palos Site Pottery – total of 524 pot sherds were recovered, mostly in very poor preservation. Only 4 vessels could be identified via usable rim sherds. 16 cordmarked grit-tempered body sherds were thought to represent Langford Ware, which is an Upper Mississippian culture based in northwestern Illinois .
Palos, Illinois refers to a group of places in Cook County, Illinois, United States, south of Chicago. Two cities and one village within Palos Township along with the township constitute the group. The greater Palos area has a total population of 34,845.
Most of the city, including all the area in Worth Township, is in Illinois's 1st congressional district; most of the area in Palos Township, excepting some of the southern portions (generally south of 131st Street) are in the 3rd district; an area under 0.05 square miles (100,000 m 2) northeast of 131st Street and 80th Avenue, along with a ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:25, 14 February 2008: 512 × 512 (378 KB): File Upload Bot (Omnedon) == Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|This is a map of Cook County, Illinois, USA which highlights the location of Palos Township.}} |Source=My own work, using freely-available TIGER data and custom-written MapScript applications |Date=2008-02-13
Surveys conducted in the 1980s found strontium-90 in the soil at Plot M, trace amounts of tritium in nearby wells, [3] [4] and plutonium, technetium, caesium, and uranium in the area. In 1994, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory yielded to public pressure and earmarked $24.7 million and $3.4 million ...
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Palos Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census , its population was 56,836, [ 2 ] with its most populous municipality being Palos Hills (pop. 17,484). The vast majority of the township's population resides in its eastern half; the half west of La Grange Road consists of the Palos Forest Preserves , a ...
Northwestern Illinois borders the states of Iowa to the west and Wisconsin to the north. The largest city in this region, located near the eastern edge, is Rockford . Rockford's Metropolitan Area includes Winnebago County and Boone County (to the east), with an estimated 2009 population of 353,722.