Glendale Heights is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 31,765 at the 2000 census. It is best known nationally as the hometown of Smashing Pumpkins founder Billy Corgan, but known more locally for its ethnically diverse population.
Population: 34,208
Latitude: 41° 54' 37.12" N
Longitude: -88° 04' 18.26" W
NAVTEQ was an American Chicago-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and a major provider of base electronic navigable maps. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2007/2008, and fully merged into Nokia in 2011 to form part of th…
Hoffman Estates is an upper middle class northwestern suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. The city is located primarily in Cook County with a small section in Kane County.
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired swampland and turned it to a centralized pr…
WLS-TV, channel 7, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Rosemont is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located immediately northwest of Chicago. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 4,202. The village was incorporated in 1956, though it had been settled long before that. While Ros…
Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County in Illinois. The population was 7,883 at the 2010 census. A suburb of Chicago, it is one of the wealthiest municipalities in the United States.
Aqua is an 82-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Designed by a team led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects, with James Loewenberg of Loewenberg & Associates as the Architect …
Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,182 at the 2000 census, and as per City Data in 2012 22,687. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.
Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, replacing an earlier station built in 1881. It is now the only intercity rail terminal in Chicago, as well as being the city's primary terminal for commuter trains. The statio…
Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roos…
Downers Grove is a village in Downers Grove, Lisle, and York Townships, DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design. It is located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. The school is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art I…
Des Plaines /dɪsˈpleɪnz/ is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It has adopted the official nickname of "City of Destiny". As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 58,364. It is a suburb of Chicago and is next to O'Hare Intern…
Wheaton is an affluent city in Milton and Winfield Townships and is the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago and Lake Michigan.
College of DuPage is a two-year community college in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The college owns and operates facilities in the Illinois communities of Addison, Carol Stream, Naperville and Westmont. The college serves students residing in Illinois' Comm…
The Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as Fermilab), just east of Batavia, Illinois, and holds the title of the second highest energy particle collider in the wo…
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion or Pritzker Music Pavilion, is a bandshell in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located on the south side of Randolph Street an…
Hamburger University is a 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m2) training facility of McDonald's Corporation, located in Oak Brook, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. This corporate university was designed to instruct personnel employed by McDonald's i…