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The Pima Villages and some of their lands were included in the Gila River Indian Reservation in 1859. An Indian Agency was established at Casa Blanca with Silas St. John, (station agent of the Butterfield Overland Mail at Casa Blanca Station), appointed on February 18, 1859, as Special Agent for the Pima and Maricopa Indians. Agent St. John ...
Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown. St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side. Greektown. Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park. The Robie House in Hyde Park is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Gateway Theatre 's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes. Census data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of urban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing comparisons of statistics across ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the City of Chicago has a total area of 606.1 km 2 (234.0 sq mi). 588.3 km 2 (227.1 sq mi) of it is land and 17.8 square kilometres (6.9 sq mi) of it is water. The total area is 2.94% water. The city has been built on relatively flat land, the average height of land is 579 feet (176 m) above sea level.
At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was the third-largest Czech city in the world, after Prague and Vienna. [23] There are approximately 14,000 Ukrainians living within the Chicago city limits. [24] Chicago has a small community of Swedish Americans, who make up 0.9% of Chicago's population and number at 23,990. [25]
312: Chicago, the central city area including the Chicago Loop and the Near North Side. 618/730: Southern Illinois, including Carbondale and most of the Metro East region of St. Louis suburbs in Illinois. 630/331: West suburbs of Chicago in DuPage County and Kane County including Wheaton, Naperville, and Aurora.
February 6, 2008. 330 North Wabash (formerly IBM Plaza also known as IBM Building and now renamed AMA Plaza) is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (who died in 1969 before construction began). A small bust of the architect by sculptor Marino Marini ...
The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Areaand Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical areain the U.S. stateof Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicagoalong with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km2), the metropolitan area includes ...