29 November 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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Harmony Park in Downtown © panoramio.com – bogdanstepniak/cc-by-3.0
Arlington Heights is a municipality in
Cook County with a small portion in
Lake County in the
U.S. state of
Illinois. A
suburb of
Chicago, it lies about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city’s downtown. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 77,676. Per the 2010 Census, it is the most populous community in the United States that is incorporated as a “village”, and is the
13th most populous municipality in Illinois, although it is not far ahead of its nearby Illinois neighboring villages of
Schaumburg and adjacent
Palatine. Arlington Heights is known for the former
Arlington Park Race Track, home of the
Arlington Million, a
Breeders’ Cup qualifying event; it also hosted the
Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships in 2002. The village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections of books in the state.
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23 September 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Architecture
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Chicago River ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation © flickr.com – John Picken/cc-by-2.0
Chicago, officially the
City of Chicago, is the
most populous city in
Illinois, as well as the
third most populous city in the
United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994, it is the most populous city in the
Midwest. Chicago is the
principal city of the
Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the
county seat of
Cook County, the
second most populous county in the United States. The
metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the
third-largest in the United States.
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