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  2. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.

  3. Jefferson Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson Park (Chicago Park District) The Chicago Park District's Jefferson Park, with a view of the field house designed by Clarence Hatzfeld. Jefferson Park is a 7-acre (28,000 m 2) park operated by the Chicago Park District. The park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places is located on the site of the Esdohr Farm.

  4. West Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The West Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is joined by the North and South Sides. The West Side contains communities that are of historical and cultural importance to the history and development of Chicago. On the flag of Chicago, [ 1 ] the West Side is represented by the central white ...

  5. Czech Republic - Wikipedia

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    The short name has been listed by the United Nations [29] and is used by other organizations such as the European Union, [30] NATO, [31] the CIA, [32] Google Maps, [33] and the European Broadcasting Union. [34] In 2022, the American AP Stylebook stated in its entry on the country that "both [Czechia and the Czech Republic] are acceptable. The ...

  6. Near North Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Near North Side is the eighth of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is the northernmost of the three areas that constitute central Chicago, the others being the Loop and the Near South Side. The community area is located north and east of the Chicago River. To its east is Lake Michigan, and its northern boundary is the early 19th-century city ...

  7. Near West Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started on the Near West Side. Waves of immigration shaped the history of the Near West Side of Chicago, including the founding of Hull House, a prominent settlement house. [3]

  8. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...

  9. Jackson Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago.Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.