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  2. Wheel clamp - Wikipedia

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    Wheel clamp as used by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. A wheel clamp, also known as wheel boot, parking boot, or Denver boot, [1] [2] is a device that is designed to prevent motor vehicles from being moved. In its most common form, it consists of a clamp that surrounds a vehicle wheel, designed to prevent removal of both itself ...

  3. Chicago Parking Meters - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Parking Meters. Chicago Parking Meters LLC also known as ParkChicago [1] is an American company [2] with several investors [3] that owns the parking meters in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The company has gained notoriety for its roots in the sale of the City of Chicago's parking meters to private investors, considered a huge financial ...

  4. Parking Wars - Wikipedia

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    January 8, 2008. ( 2008-01-08) –. December 22, 2012. ( 2012-12-22) Parking Wars is an American reality television series that aired on the A&E television network from 2008 to 2012. [1] The program followed parking enforcement officers as they engaged in ticketing, "booting", towing and releasing vehicles back to their owners, as part of their ...

  5. Timeline of organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The car was impounded by the police. [174] [175] May 3, 1962 – Chicago-area Burglar Jimmy Miraglia went missing. [175] May 15, 1962 – The bodies of burglars Jimmy Miraglia and Billy McCarthy were found in the trunk of a car on west 55th Street. They were badly beaten and their throats were slit.

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  7. Grant Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Located within the city's central business district, the 319-acre (1.29 km 2) park's features include Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum Campus . Originally known as Lake Park, and dating from the city's founding, it ...

  8. Park Tower (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Park Tower seen from ground level. Park Tower is a skyscraper located at 800 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2000 and standing at 844 feet (257 m) tall with 70 floors — 67 floors for practical use, it is the twelfth-tallest building in Chicago, the 43rd-tallest building in the United States, and the 83rd-tallest in ...

  9. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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    Brussels International (1897) in Brussels. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large ...