WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Paris, Illinois - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Illinois

    2396141 [1] Website. parisillinois.org. Paris is a city in Edgar County, Illinois, 165 miles (266 km) south of Chicago and 90 miles (140 km) west of Indianapolis. The population was 8,291 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat and largest city of Edgar County.

  3. List of people from Illinois - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Illinois

    Judy Biggert, U.S. Representative 1999–2013; Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago 1976–79, chief justice of Illinois Supreme Court; Tom Billeter, basketball coach; George Binks, MLB outfielder 1944–48; Claude Binyon, journalist, screenwriter and film director; William Morris Bioff, organized crime figure; Dick Biondi, radio personality ...

  4. Top Chef: World All-Stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chef:_World_All-Stars

    Production. According to Gail Simmons, the concept for Top Chef: World All-Stars had been in the works for over two years. After filming had wrapped up for the finale of Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. in Tuscany, Magical Elves Productions' executive producers and showrunner flew to Paris to meet with Bravo executives and representatives from the twenty-nine global adaptations of Top Chef.

  5. Brighton Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Park,_Chicago

    Brighton Park is a community area located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois.It is number 58 of the 77 community areas of Chicago.. Brighton Park is bordered on the north by the former Illinois and Michigan Canal and the current Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, on the east by Western Avenue, on the south by 49th Street, and on the west by Drake Ave.

  6. Vietnam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

    Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

  7. Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_Faubourg_Saint-Honoré

    The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (pronounced [ʁy dy fobuʁ sɛ̃tɔnɔʁe]) is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.Relatively narrow and nondescript, especially in comparison to the nearby Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being one of the most luxurious and fashionable streets in the world thanks to the presence of virtually every major global fashion house ...

  8. Stonewall riots - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

    Background Very few establishments welcomed gay people in the 1950s and 1960s; those that did were often run by organized crime groups, due to the illegal nature of gay bars at the time. As was common for American gay bars at the time, the Stonewall Inn was owned by the Italian-American Mafia. The anti-homosexual legal system of the 1950s and 1960s prompted early homosexual groups in the US to ...

  9. Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_Saint-Jacques,_Paris

    Rue Saint-Jacques is a street in the Latin Quarter of Paris which lies along the cardo of Roman Lutetia. Boulevard Saint-Michel, driven through this old quarter of Paris by Baron Haussmann, relegated the roughly parallel Rue Saint-Jacques to a backstreet, but it was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest.