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The market is located on the near southwest side of Chicago, just north of the South Branch of the Chicago River, between Chicago's Pilsen and McKinley Park neighborhoods. It consists of a single building on a 26-acre (110,000 m 2) site. There are two entrances: one from the west on Damen Avenue, and one from the north near Blue Island Avenue.
South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.
Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2] Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and ...
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. [ 1 ] It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. [ 2 ]
Blue Sky Vineyard is a family-owned vineyard and winery in Illinois, owned and operated by Barrett Rochman, Marilyn Rochman, and Jim Ewers. Blue Sky Vineyard is located in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest and anchors the eastern end of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail. [1] Located within the Shawnee Hills American Viticultural Area, an area ...
This is a list of seating capacities for sports and entertainment arenas in the United States with at least 1,000 seats. The list is composed mostly of arenas that house sports teams (basketball, ice hockey, arena soccer and arena football) and serve as indoor venues for concerts and expositions.
USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast 's NBCUniversal. It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels. It was relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980 ...
Contents. Illumination (company) Illumination, formerly known as Illumination Entertainment, is an American animation studio founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007 and is a division of Universal Pictures, [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal; Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances ...