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Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron, 1788–1855, British general. He entered the army in 1804 and was made (1814) a lieutenant colonel for his services on the duke of Wellington's staff i...

Evergreen Park

(Encyclopedia)Evergreen Park, village (2020 pop. 19,943), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893.

Mount Prospect

(Encyclopedia)Mount Prospect, village (1990 pop. 53,170), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1917. It is a residential suburb of Chicago.

Franklin Park

(Encyclopedia)Franklin Park, village (2020 pop. 18,467), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1892. It is chiefly residential. ...

Elmwood Park

(Encyclopedia)Elmwood Park, village (2020 pop. 24,521), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1914. It is chiefly residential. ...

South Holland, village, United States

(Encyclopedia)South Holland, village (1990 pop. 22,105), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; settled 1846 by Dutch, inc. 1894.

La Grange Park

(Encyclopedia)La Grange Park, village (1990 pop. 12,861), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1892. Pens are manufactured there.

Penrhyn

(Encyclopedia)Penrhyn: see Cook Islands.

Glaspell, Susan

(Encyclopedia)Glaspell, Susan glăsˈpĕl [key], 1876–1948, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa, grad. Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown...

Bellwood

(Encyclopedia)Bellwood, residential village (2020 pop. 18,380), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1900. Among Bellwood's manufactures are consumer goods, brass items, paper and...