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A. J. Bramlett

Aaron Jordan Bramlett (born January 10, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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American Farm Bureau Federation

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more informally called the American Farm Bureau (AFB) or simply the Farm Bureau, is a United States-based 501(c)(5) tax-exempt agricultural organization and lobbying group.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Area codes 815 and 779

Area codes 815 and 779 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of northern Illinois outside the Quad Cities areas.

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At Any Price

At Any Price is a 2012 American drama film directed by Ramin Bahrani and written by Ramin Bahrani and Hallie Newton.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Aurora, Illinois

Aurora is a city in northeastern Illinois, United States. DeKalb, Illinois and Aurora, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

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Barbed wire

Roll of modern agricultural barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.

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Bayer

Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. DeKalb, Illinois and Chicago are cities in Illinois and cities in the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

The Chicago and North Western was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model.

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Cirrus Aircraft

The Cirrus Design Corporation, doing business as Cirrus Aircraft (formally Cirrus Design), is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft, and is headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.

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Clare, Illinois

Clare is an unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States, located northwest of Sycamore.

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Cortland, Illinois

Cortland is an incorporated town in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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CUNY Graduate Center

The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City.

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Daily Chronicle (Illinois)

The Daily Chronicle is a newspaper which covers DeKalb County in northern Illinois.

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DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 is a school district headquartered in DeKalb, Illinois.

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DeKalb County, Illinois

DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. DeKalb, Illinois and DeKalb County, Illinois are Populated places established in 1837.

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DeKalb Genetics Corporation

DeKalb Genetics Corporation (often stylized DEKALB; formerly DeKalb Agricultural Association and DEKALB AgResearch) was a diversified company headquartered in DeKalb, Illinois that marketed agricultural seeds and other products.

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DeKalb High School (Illinois)

DeKalb High School is a public high school located in DeKalb, Illinois, in the United States.

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DeKalb Public Transit

DeKalb Public Transit is the primary provider of mass transportation in DeKalb County, Illinois, with routes serving the DeKalb area.

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DeKalb station

DeKalb station is a former railway station in Downtown DeKalb, Illinois.

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DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport

DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport, which opened in April 1944, is a general aviation airport and is situated on at an elevation of 914 ft (279 m) and located two miles (3.2 km) east of DeKalb, Illinois, United States.

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Dennis J. Collins

Dennis J. Collins (November 21, 1900 – September 5, 1974) was an American lawyer, farmer, and businessman.

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Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver.

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Doug Mallory

Doug Mallory (born November 2, 1964) is an American football coach and former player.

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Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois)

The Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, is an Egyptian Revival theatre that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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Elburn station

Elburn is a station on Metra's Union Pacific West Line located in Elburn, Illinois.

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Ellwood House

The Ellwood House was built as a private home by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood in 1879.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Esmond, Illinois

Esmond is an unincorporated community in South Grove Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Franconia

Franconia (Franken,; East Franconian: Franggn; Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German: Ostfränkisch).

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Fred Eychaner

Fred Eychaner (born 1944) is an American businessman and philanthropist.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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George Franklin Barber

George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs.

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Haish Memorial Library

The Haish Memorial Library (also known as the DeKalb Public Library) was designed by Chicago architects White and Weber (Charles E. White, Jr. and Bertram A. Weber) Gebhard, David, "The National Trust Guide to Art Deco in America," Preservation Press, New York, NY; 1996.

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Hellah Sidibe

Hellah Sidibe is a runner, a former professional soccer player and has run across the United States.

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Hinckley, Illinois

Hinckley is a village in Squaw Grove Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Hunter College

Hunter College is a public university in New York City.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Route 23

Illinois Route 23 (IL 23) is a north–south state highway in northern Illinois.

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Illinois Route 38

Illinois Route 38 is an west–east state highway that runs across northern Illinois.

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Illinois Tollway

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) is an administrative agency of the U.S. state of Illinois charged with building, operating, and maintaining toll roads in the state.

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Interstate 88 (Illinois)

Interstate 88 (I-88) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that runs from an interchange with I-80 near Silvis and Moline to an interchange with I-290 and I-294 in Hillside, near Chicago.

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Interstate TDR

The Interstate TDR was an early unmanned combat aerial vehicle — referred to at the time as an "assault drone" — developed by the Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Corporation during the Second World War for use by the United States Navy.

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Isaac L. Ellwood

Isaac Leonard Ellwood (August 3, 1833 – September 11, 1910) was an American rancher, businessman and barbed wire entrepreneur.

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Islington

Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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Jacob Haish

Jacob Haish (March 9, 1826 – February 19, 1926) was one of the first inventors of barbed wire.

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Johann de Kalb

Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb (June 19, 1721 – August 19, 1780), born Johann Kalb, was a Franconian-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Joseph B. Ebbesen

Joseph Bernard Ebbesen (January 12, 1925 – September 7, 2014) was an American politician and optometrist.

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Joseph Glidden

Joseph Farwell Glidden (January 18, 1813 – October 9, 1906) was an American businessman and farmer.

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Karl Nelson

Karl Stuart Nelson (born June 14, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kishwaukee River

The Kishwaukee River, locally known as simply The Kish, is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Klapmeier brothers

The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are retired American aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded the Cirrus Design Corporation in 1984.

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Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway is one of the first transcontinental highways in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles.

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Linebacker

Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football.

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List of counties in Illinois

There are 102 counties in Illinois.

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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Los Angeles Rams

The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Malta, Illinois

Malta is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Mel Kenyon

Mel Kenyon (born April 15, 1933, in DeKalb, Illinois) is a former midget car driver.

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Mel Owens

Mel Tyrae Owens (born December 7, 1958) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for nine seasons with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL).

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Metra

Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads.

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Mike Heimerdinger

Michael Heimerdinger (October 13, 1952 – September 30, 2011) was an American football coach who held various coordinator and position coach roles during 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

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Monsanto

The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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Music theory

Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.

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National Aviation Hall of Fame

The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) is a museum, annual awards ceremony and learning and research center that was founded in 1962 as an Ohio non-profit corporation in Dayton, Ohio, United States, known as the "Birthplace of Aviation" with its connection to the Wright brothers.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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The Northern Illinois Huskies football team are a college football program representing Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football.

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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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O'Hare International Airport

Chicago O'Hare International Airport is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Perry Mason (1957 TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966.

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Philip Ewell

Philip Adrian Ewell (born February 16, 1966) is an American professor of music theory at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Powerviolence

Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is a chaotic and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore.

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Presidency of John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963.

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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Reaktion Books

Reaktion Books is an independent book publisher based in Islington, London, England.

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Richard Jenkins

Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor.

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.

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Shabbona, Illinois

Shabbona is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Sue Vicory

Sue Vicory is an American writer, producer and filmmaker known for producing films and documentaries in Kansas City and San Diego.

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Sycamore, Illinois

Sycamore is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. DeKalb, Illinois and Sycamore, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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A tackle is a playing position in American football.

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Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Echo Maker

The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is a 2017 romantic fantasy film directed and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.

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The Visitor (2007 feature film)

The Visitor is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Twin Zephyr

The Twin Zephyrs, also known as the Twin Cities Zephyrs, were a pair of streamlined passenger trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), running between Chicago and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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Union Pacific West Line

The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs.

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United States Secretary of Labor

The United States secretary of labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the United States Department of Labor, controls the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Voluntary Action Center

Voluntary Action Center (VAC) is an American local non-profit organization based in DeKalb County, Illinois that seeks to help people meet their basic transportation and nutrition needs through the efforts of volunteers.

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W. Willard Wirtz

William Willard Wirtz (March 14, 1912 – April 24, 2010) was a U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Waterman, Illinois

Waterman is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

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Weekend Nachos

Weekend Nachos is an American powerviolence band from DeKalb, Illinois.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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2008 Northern Illinois University shooting

The Northern Illinois University shooting was a school shooting that took place on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Illinois.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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See also

Cities in the Chicago metropolitan area

References

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