(Placename) an industrial city in NE New Jersey, opposite Manhattan on a peninsula between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers: part of the Port of New York; site of one of the greatest railway terminals in the world. Pop: 239 097 (2003 est) ...
The classification of cities on the basis of their functions—and also on the basis of size, which primarily depends on the volume of these functions—should be supplemented by the features of the city’s geographic position and the nature of its relations with the territory near it. Thus, ...
Little did Palmolive know, it would one day host the headquarters of Playboy magazine. Chicago: Now f11photo // Shutterstock Chicago: Now Skyscrapers continued cropping up in Chicago throughout the 20th century, including some of the city's great wonders, like the Willis Tower and 875 North ...
Bannockburn may lie outside of Chicago, but it has architectural prestige of its own—renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Friedman house is located there. The North Shore suburb was originally created by a Scottish real estate professional as a “country estate” community, and was named for...
In 1960, the population of Milwaukee itself sat at 741,324, but by 2020 they had just 576,301 residents. In 2021, that number wass as low as 569,330. The plan is to bring more tech jobs into the city to keep up with other large cities like Chicago, Madison, and Indianapolis. ...
4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced four days of violent civil unrest and rioting. It was part of the broader riots that affected at least 110 U.S. cities. Those in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Baltimore were among those with the most significant numbers of participants. President...
6Up until 1948, the University of Pennsylvania had con-ducted the largest scale excavations at the site, but since 1948, the size of the Univer-sity of Chicago’s excavations has surpassed those of the Pennsylvania excavations.From the early 1970s, McGuire Gibson, as director of the Nippur ...
(at present day Rock Island, Illinois). Thus, Vincennes and Peoria were the limit of Louisiana's reach; the outposts at Ouiatenon (on the upper Wabash near present-day Lafayette, Indiana), Chicago, Fort Miamis (near present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana), and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, ...
Completeness and accuracy of registration of ovarian cancer in the cancer registry of Norway. Completeness of reporting and accuracy of the diagnosis of ovarian cancer from one health region in Norway to the Cancer Registry were examined. Data kept ... S Tingulstad,T Halvorsen,J Norstein,... ...
Regional cooperation has been increasingly recognized as indispensable in promoting coordinated regional development in China’s new urbanization. The “city-helps-city” cooperation arises as an important type of regional approach to reduce regional inequalities. This study focuses on the “city-helps-ci...