Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Melrose Park

(Encyclopedia)Melrose Park, village (1990 pop. 20,859), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. It has large railroad yards and shops, steel mills, and factories that make a wide variety of p...

Homewood

(Encyclopedia)Homewood. 1 City (2020 pop. 26,414), Jefferson co., N central Ala., a residential suburb of Birmingham; inc. 1921. 2 Village (2020 ...

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia)Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of, 1593–1641, English statesman. Regularly elected to Parliament from 1614 on, he became one of the critics of George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, and of ...

Chicago Heights

(Encyclopedia)Chicago Heights, city (2020 pop. 28,860), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an industrial community wher...

Flattery, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Flattery, Cape, NW Wash., at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait; discovered in 1778 by Capt. James Cook. A lighthouse and the reservation of the Makah people are on the cape, where cliffs rise 120 ft...

Northlake

(Encyclopedia)Northlake, city (1990 pop. 12,505), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1949. Its has various manufactures. St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church, which is shaped like a fis...

Park Ridge

(Encyclopedia)Park Ridge, city (1990 pop. 36,175), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago, on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1873. It is chiefly residential. Several national and international corporations ha...

Harvey

(Encyclopedia)Harvey, city (2020 pop. 20,324), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb S of Chicago; inc. 1895. Its manufactures include steel castings, metal products, chemicals...

Blue Island

(Encyclopedia)Blue Island, city (2020 pop. 22,549), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential and industrial suburb of Chicago, on the Little Calumet River; inc. 1843. It has ...

Calumet City

(Encyclopedia)Calumet City, city (2020 pop. 36,033), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb in the greater Chicago metropolitan area, near Ind.; settled 1868, inc. 1911. Once he...