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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American supernatural slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer (in his feature directorial debut), written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, and starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz.

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Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium is a public museum in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics.

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Advocate Sherman Hospital

Advocate Sherman Hospital is a hospital located in Elgin, Illinois.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Algonquin, Illinois

Algonquin is a village in McHenry and Kane counties, Illinois, in the United States. Elgin, Illinois and Algonquin, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Allegheny Mountains

The Allegheny Mountain Range (also spelled Alleghany or Allegany), informally the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less developed eras.

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American Baptist Churches USA

The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972.

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American bison

The American bison (Bison bison;: bison), also called the American buffalo, or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison native to North America.

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Anna Moeller

Anna Moeller is a member of the Illinois House of Representatives who was sworn in March 31, 2014.

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Area codes 630 and 331

Area codes 630 and 331 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for portions of Chicago's near and far western suburbs, including the majority of DuPage County, Illinois.

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Area codes 847 and 224

Area codes 847 and 224 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company

The Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric (AE&FRE), was an interurban railroad that operated freight and passenger service on its line paralleling the Fox River.

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Bartlett, Illinois

Bartlett is a village in Illinois, United States. Elgin, Illinois and Bartlett, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Batavia, Illinois

Batavia is a city mainly in Kane County and partly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Elgin, Illinois and Batavia, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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Big Timber Road station

Big Timber Road is a commuter railroad station in the Kane County portion of Elgin, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.

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Bill Maher

William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.

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Blue Line (CTA)

The Blue Line is a Chicago "L" line which extends through The Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end at Forest Park, with a total of 33 stations (11 on the Forest Park branch, 9 in the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and 13 on the O'Hare branch).

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Brandon Johnson

Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) is an American educator and politician who has served as the 57th Mayor of Chicago since 2023.

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Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce William Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950) is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer.

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Burlington, Illinois

Burlington is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.

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Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois

Campton Township is located in Kane County, Illinois.

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Carol Stream, Illinois

Carol Stream is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. Elgin, Illinois and Carol Stream, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Casino

A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.

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Central Community Unit School District 301 is a school district located mainly in Kane County, Illinois.

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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. Elgin, Illinois and Chicago are cities in Illinois.

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Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad

The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service on its line between Chicago and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin, Illinois.

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Chicago metropolitan area

The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities.

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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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Chicago Union Station

Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago.

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Climbing wall

A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with manufactured grips (or "holds") for the hands and feet.

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Cobblestone

Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.

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College-preparatory school

A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school.

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Community Unit School District 300 is a school district headquartered in Algonquin, Illinois, United States, a suburb of Chicago.

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Condensed milk

Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed (roughly 60% of it).

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Conservation easement

In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner so as to achieve certain conservation purposes.

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Contagion (2011 film)

Contagion is a 2011 American medical disaster thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. Elgin, Illinois and Cook County, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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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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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cycling infrastructure

Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use.

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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)

The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

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Dan Andriano

Daniel Michael Andriano (born June 27, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

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Dan Ugaste

Daniel J. Ugaste is a lawyer, politician and Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 65th district.

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Dave Kaptain

Dave Kaptain is an American chemist and politician who is the current mayor of Elgin, Illinois.

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Delia Ramirez

Delia Catalina Ramirez (born June 2, 1983) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Illinois's 3rd congressional district since 2023.

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Dennis the Menace (1993 film)

Dennis the Menace (released in the United Kingdom as Dennis to avoid confusion with Dennis the Menace and Gnasher) is a 1993 American family comedy film based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name, directed by Nick Castle, written and coproduced by John Hughes and distributed by Warner Bros.

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Don DeWitte

Donald P. DeWitte is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate for the 33rd District.

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Dundee Township, Kane County, Illinois

Dundee Township occupies the square in the Northeast corner of Kane County, Illinois.

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East Dundee, Illinois

East Dundee is a village in Kane County with a small section in Cook County. Elgin, Illinois and East Dundee, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Elgin Academy (Elgin, Illinois)

Elgin Academy was an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory school in Elgin, Illinois, United States.

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Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company

The Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company was a interurban line that connected Belvidere, Illinois and Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Area School District U46

Elgin Area School District U46, often referred to as "U-46", is a unit school district headquartered in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois.

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Elgin Community College (ECC) is a public community college in Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin High School (Illinois)

Elgin High School, or EHS, is a public four-year high school located in Elgin, Illinois, an American city 40 mi.

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Elgin Mental Health Center

The Elgin Mental Health Center (formerly Elgin State Hospital & the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane) is a mental health facility operated by the State of Illinois in Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin National Watch Company

The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968.

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Elgin Professional Building

The Elgin Professional Building is a historic high-rise building constructed in 1928 at 164 Division Street in downtown Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Public Museum

The Elgin Public Museum of Natural History and Anthropology is a natural history museum located in Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Road Races

The Elgin Road Races were a series of automobile races that took place on closed public roads in Elgin, Illinois between 1910 and 1920.

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Elgin station (Illinois)

Elgin is one of three stations on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line in Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Symphony Orchestra

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra is a regional orchestra founded and headquartered in Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Tower Building

The Elgin Tower Building, originally the Home Banks Building, is a historic office building in downtown Elgin, Illinois.

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Elgin Township, Kane County, Illinois

Elgin Township is located in Kane County, Illinois.

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Elgin Transportation Center

The Elgin Transportation Center is the main local bus station in Elgin, Illinois, serving as the central hub for the Pace bus system in the Elgin area.

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Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 1976, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestras (EYSO) is the oldest and largest youth orchestra program in northwest Illinois and is composed of three full orchestras, two string orchestras, a brass choir, two percussion ensembles, a flute choir, and a large Chamber Music Institute.

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Eugenia St. John Mann

Eugenia St.

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FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.

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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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Fen

A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.

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Forest Preserve District of Cook County

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County is a governmental commission in Cook County, Illinois, that owns and manages land containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes.

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Four Friends (1981 film)

Four Friends is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Penn.

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Fox River (Illinois River tributary)

The Fox River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.

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Fred Crespo

Fred Crespo is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 44th district since 2007.

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Gail Borden

Gail Borden Jr. (November 9, 1801 – January 11, 1874) was an American inventor and manufacturing pioneer.

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Gail Borden Public Library District

Gail Borden Public Library is a public library district located in Elgin, Illinois.

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Galena, Illinois

Galena is the largest city in and the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. Elgin, Illinois and Galena, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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General Motors

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Geneva, Illinois

Geneva is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Illinois, United States. Elgin, Illinois and Geneva, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and cities in Illinois.

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Gilberts, Illinois

Gilberts is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.

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Grace Under Fire

Grace Under Fire is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 29, 1993, to February 17, 1998.

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Grand Victoria Casino Elgin

The Grand Victoria Casino Elgin is a riverboat casino in Elgin, Illinois, United States, located about west of Chicago.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great Depression in the United States

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide.

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Hampshire, Illinois

Hampshire is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.

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Hanover Township, Cook County, Illinois

Hanover Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA and is located at the end of the county's panhandle.

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Harry Chamberlin

Harry Dwight Chamberlin (May 19, 1887 – September 29, 1944) was a career officer in the United States Army.

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Harvest Christian Academy (Illinois)

Harvest Christian Academy is a private Christian school in Elgin, Illinois, United States.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK) is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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Illinois

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

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Illinois Route 19

Illinois Route 19 (abbreviated IL-19, or simply Illinois 19) is a major east–west arterial state highway in northeastern Illinois, United States.

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Illinois Route 25

Illinois Route 25 (IL 25) is a state route in northeast Illinois.

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Illinois Route 31

Illinois Route 31 (IL 31) is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois, United States.

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Illinois Route 58

Illinois Route 58 (IL 58, Illinois 58), also known as Golf Road for most of its route, is a state highway in northeast Illinois.

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Illinois Route 72

Illinois Route 72 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Indian Removal Act

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson.

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Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996.

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Interstate 90

Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at.

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Interstate 90 in Illinois

Interstate 90 (I-90) in the US state of Illinois runs roughly northwest-to-southeast through the northern part of the state.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway in Canada) is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Jacques Marquette

Jacques Marquette, S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace.

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James Roche (General Motors)

James Michael Roche (December 16, 1906 – June 6, 2004) was an American statistician who served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.

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Jessica Mink

Jessica Mink (formerly Douglas John Mink) is an American software developer and a data archivist at the Center for Astrophysics ! Harvard & Smithsonian.

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Jim Gaffigan

James Christopher Gaffigan (born July 7, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware.

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Judson University

Judson University is a private Baptist university in Elgin, Illinois.

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Kane County, Illinois

Kane County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. Elgin, Illinois and Kane County, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.

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Laotian Americans

Laotian Americans (translit) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Laos.

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Larkin High School

Larkin High School, also known as LHS, is a public four-year high school located in Elgin, Illinois, in the United States.

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Latino (demonym)

The masculine term Latino, along with its feminine form Latina, is a noun and adjective, often used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, that most commonly refers to United States inhabitants who have cultural ties to Latin America.

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Lauren Underwood

Lauren Ashley Underwood (born October 4, 1986) is an American politician and registered nurse who is a U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party.

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LEED

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program used worldwide.

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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin 'free' and 'art or principled practice') is the traditional academic course in Western higher education.

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List of counties in Illinois

There are 102 counties in Illinois.

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List of Illinois townships

Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law.

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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List of Prison Break characters

This is a list of characters in the American television series Prison Break.

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List of Roseanne episodes

Roseanne is an American television sitcom created by Matt Williams that originally aired on ABC from October 18, 1988, to May 20, 1997, with a revival season that premiered in 2018.

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List of school districts in Illinois

The following is a list of school districts in Illinois.

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Lloyd Hall

Lloyd Augustus Hall (June 20, 1894 – January 2, 1971) was an American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation.

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Louis Jolliet

Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645after May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America.

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Madman Muntz

Earl William "Madman" Muntz (January 3, 1914 – June 21, 1987) was an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Max Adler (Sears)

Max Adler (May 12, 1866 – November 4, 1952) was an American businessman, musician and philanthropist.

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Mayor of Chicago

The mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of city government in Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States.

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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.

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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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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Milwaukee District West Line

The Milwaukee District West Line (MD-W) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs.

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Motorola Solutions

Motorola Solutions, Inc. is an American video equipment, telecommunications equipment, software, systems and services provider that succeeded Motorola, Inc., following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola Mobility in 2011.

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Mound Builders

Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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National Louis University

National Louis University (NLU) is a private nonprofit university with its main campus in Chicago, Illinois.

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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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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Street station

National Street is one of three stations on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line in Elgin, Illinois.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Pace (transit)

Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Pace I-90 Express

Pace I-90 Express Bus Service is an on highway express bus service between Rosemont Transportation Center and Elgin operated by Pace.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Paul Flory

Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules.

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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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Pingree Grove, Illinois

Pingree Grove is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.

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Plastic (2011 film)

Plastic is a 2011 horror crime film.

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Plato Center, Illinois

Plato Center is an unincorporated community in Kane County, Illinois, United States, located south of Pingree Grove.

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Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois

Plato Township is one of sixteen townships in Kane County, Illinois, USA.

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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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Primal Fear (film)

Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal mystery crime thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl, written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman.

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Prison Break

Prison Break is an American drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox.

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Prison Break season 2

The second season of Prison Break, an American serial drama television series, commenced airing in the United States on August 21, 2006, on Mondays at 8:00 pm (EST) on Fox.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States

Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910.

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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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Rainwater tank

A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes.

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Raja Krishnamoorthi

Subramanian Raja Krishnamoorthi (born July 19, 1973) is an American businessman, politician, and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for since 2017.

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Real estate appraisal

Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value).

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Riverboat

A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Roseanne

Roseanne is an American television sitcom created by Matt Williams that originally aired on ABC from October 18, 1988, to May 20, 1997, and briefly revived from March 27, 2018, to May 22, 2018.

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Rosemont station (CTA)

Rosemont, formerly River Road, is a Chicago "L" station at the intersection of River Road and I-190 in the suburb of Rosemont, Illinois.

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Rutland Township, Kane County, Illinois

Rutland Township is one of sixteen townships in Kane County, Illinois.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.

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Sears Modern Homes

Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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South Elgin, Illinois

South Elgin is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.

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Spring Hill Mall

Spring Hill Mall was a shopping mall in West Dundee, Illinois.

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Community Unit School District 303 is a comprehensive K-12 public education system covering in the Fox Valley, west of Chicago.

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St. Charles, Illinois

St. Charles is a city in DuPage and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It lies roughly west of Chicago on Illinois Route 64. Per the 2020 census, the population was 33,081. The official city slogan is "Pride of the Fox", after the Fox River that runs through the center of town. St. Elgin, Illinois and st. Charles, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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St. Edward Central Catholic High School (Elgin, Illinois)

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Stereo-Pak

The Muntz Stereo-Pak, commonly known as the 4-track cartridge, is a magnetic tape sound recording cartridge technology.

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Street sweeper

A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or machine that cleans streets.

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Superstore (TV series)

Superstore is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 30, 2015, to March 25, 2021.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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Textile recycling

Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products.

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The Einstein Academy (Elgin, Illinois)

The Einstein Academy is a small, private school for talented and gifted students in Pre-kindergarten through High school.

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The Hemmens Cultural Center

The Hemmens Cultural Center is a 1,200-seat theatre in Elgin, Illinois, United States.

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The Purge

The Purge is an American anthology media franchise centered on a series of dystopian action horror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes, which are written and in some cases also directed by James DeMonaco, who was inspired by a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons".

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Thuja

Thuja is a genus of coniferous tree or shrub in the Cupressaceae (cypress family).

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Tom Shales

Thomas William Shales (November 3, 1944 – January 13, 2024) was an American writer and television critic.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin,_Illinois

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