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2. Chicago Southland - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Southland is a region comprising the south and southwest suburbs of the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. Home to roughly 2.5 million residents, this region has been known as the Southland by the local populace and regional media for over 20 years. [1] Despite this relatively recent term, some older native Southlanders ...

3. Chicago Area Project - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Area Project. Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw. As of 2009, its current executive director is David E. Whittaker .

4. Lincoln Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   The 2003 Chicago balcony collapse was a disaster that occurred on June 29, 2003, in Lincoln Park, resulting in the deadliest porch collapse in United States history. In 1824, the United States Army built a small post near today's Clybourn Avenue and Armitage Avenue (formerly Centre Street). Native American settlements existed along Green Bay ...

5. Amusement park - Wikipedia

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   A theme park is a type of amusement park that bases its structures and attractions around a central theme, often featuring multiple areas with different themes. Unlike temporary and mobile funfairs and carnivals, amusement parks are stationary and built for long-lasting operation.

6. Universal Studios Japan - Wikipedia

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   It originally was a two-slide complex before expanding to four slides in 2002. It was closed in 2013 and demolished to make way for attractions in "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter". Pig-Pen's Prop Plaza: 2001: 2011: A sub-section of the Snoopy Playland area. Removed to make way for new attractions in the Universal Wonderland expansion.

7. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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   Suburbanization. A suburban land use pattern in the United States ( Colorado Springs, Colorado ), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road. Suburbanization ( AE ), or suburbanisation ( BE ), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub ...

8. Tweetsie Railroad - Wikipedia

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   Tweetsie Railroad. / 36.170930; -81.649029. Tweetsie Railroad is a family-oriented Wild West theme park located between Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States. The centerpiece of the park is a 3-mile (4.8 km) ride on a train pulled by one of Tweetsie Railroad's two historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives.

9. Millennium Park - Wikipedia

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   Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in 2004 and intended to celebrate the third millennium, is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) section of northwestern Grant Park.