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Prairie View, Lake County, Illinois
Prairie View is an unincorporated community located in northeastern Illinois, in southern Lake County. It is a part of Vernon Township (the Vernon Township building was previously located in Prairie View for many years). Prairie View has not been annexed entirely by either Lincolnshire or Buffalo Grove, although tiny portions of it have been. Development In recent years, Prairie View has been divided into two sections as surrounding towns have annexed their neighboring settlements and tiny portions of Prairie View itself. The northern section, which contains the Prairie View Metra station, is near Stevenson High School and is bordered by Vernon Hills to the north, Lincolnshire to the east and Buffalo Grove to the south and west. This section receives its water, sewer, and fire emergency service from Lincolnshire; all other services are provided by Vernon Township and Lake County. A modern subdivision (consisting of about 50 homes) located in this section was built during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath state and territorial governments. A local government area (LGA) often contains several towns and even entire metropolitan areas. Thus, aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other special cases, almost all of Australia is part of an LGA. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai E
Adlai may refer to: * Adlai (biblical figure), the father of Shaphat, and the grandfather of the prophet Elisha * Adlai, West Virginia, unincorporated community, United States * The first name of Adlai Stevenson I, Grover Cleveland's Vice President * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson II, grandson of the above entry, former Governor of Illinois, and unsuccessful Presidential candidate * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson III, son of the above entry, and former Senator from Illinois * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson IV, son of the above entry, business executive and former journalist * The colloquial name of an annual collegiate debating competition held by Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society as part of the American Parliamentary Debate Association * Job's tears, a grain sometimes known as adlay or adlay millet * Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois) Adlai E. Stevenson High School (AESHS), commonly called Stevenson High School (SHS), is a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosheh Oinounou
Mosheh Oinounou (born May 21, 1982) is an American media executive who most recently served as executive producer of ''CBS Evening News.'' Biography Oinounou was raised in Prairie View, Illinois and graduated from Stevenson High School. He is a graduate of George Washington University where he received a BA in Political Communication and an MA in Security Policy Studies. He served as editor in chief of the school's biweekly newspaper, The GW Hatchet and was active in Hillel International. He began his media career as a producer at Fox News Channel, initially for Fox News Sunday and later as the network's embedded producer traveling with the 2008 McCain presidential campaign. He later worked as an international editor at Bloomberg TV where he covered the great recession and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. In 2011 he joined CBS News as a senior producer on the team that helped launch CBS This Morning and received a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Lando
Joseph John Lando (born December 9, 1961) is an American actor, known for playing Jake Harrison on daytime's ''One Life to Live'' (1990–1992) and Byron Sully on the television series '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' (1993–1998). Life and career Lando attended Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. His first acting role was as a patrolman in '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.'' He received attention for his role as Jake Harrison in the soap opera ''One Life to Live'', and went on to co-star in the popular drama ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' as Michaela Quinn's love interest, Byron Sully. He also appeared in the television series '' Guiding Light'' and starred in '' Higher Ground'', for which he also served as executive producer. He had a small part in the series '' Summerland'', and appeared in eight episodes of the TV series '' The Secret Circle'' as John Blackwell, the father of the main character. In 2014 he joined several ''Dr. Quinn'' castmates as they all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States. Over 600 women played in the league, which consisted of eventually 10 teams located in the American Midwest. In 1948, league attendance peaked at over 900,000 spectators. The most successful team, the Rockford Peaches, won a league-best four championships. The 1992 film '' A League of Their Own'' is a mostly fictionalized account of the early days of the league and its stars. Founding and play With the entry of the United States into World War II, several major league baseball executives started a new professional league with women players in order to maintain baseball in the public eye while the majority of able men were away. The founders included Philip K. Wrigley, Branch Rickey, and Paul V. Harper. They feared that M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Ladd
Jean Ladd (February 26, 1923 – September 29, 2009) was an American pitcher and left fielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed. Madden, W. C. (2005) ''The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary''. McFarland & Company. Born in Prairie View, Illinois, Jean Ladd appeared in fewer than ten games for the Kenosha Comets during the 1951 season. Afterwards, Ladd returned home and worked as a high school teacher for 23 years. Following her retirement, she became an avid golfer and bowler and also was very active in social activities. In 1988, Jean Ladd received further recognition when she became part of ''Women in Baseball'', a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Station (Chicago)
Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station is Amtrak's flagship station in the Midwest. While serving long-distance passenger trains, it is also the downtown terminus for six Metra commuter lines. The station is just west of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks (mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers). The present Chicago Union Station opened in 1925, replacing an earlier station on this site built in 1881. The station is the fourth-busiest rail station in the United States, after Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, and Jamaica station in New York City. It is Amtrak's overall fourth-busiest station, and 120,000 daily Metra riders and the busiest outside of its Northeast Corridor. It handles about 140, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antioch, Illinois
Antioch is a village in the U.S. state of Illinois. Antioch is part of the larger Antioch Township within Lake County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,622. The village is nestled into the Chain O'Lakes waterway system and borders the state of Wisconsin. Part of the Chicago metropolitan area, Antioch is located approximately halfway between the major cities of Chicago (60 miles south) and Milwaukee (50 miles north). History Native American history The Pottawatomi Tribe historically inhabited in the area of present-day Antioch prior to European settlement.Village of Antioch - History The tribe was pushed to the west by European/American encroachment in the 1830s although remnants can still be found today. European settlement The first permanent European settlements in the region were ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Central Service
The North Central Service (NCS) is a Metra commuter rail line running from Union Station in downtown Chicago through northwestern and far northern suburbs to Antioch, Illinois. In June 2018, the public timetable shows 10 weekday departures from Chicago. This line does not run at all on weekends or holidays. While Metra does not explicitly refer to any of its eleven routes by colors, the NCS' timetable accents are lavender, a shade of purple. It is one of two Metra lines that does not have a specific color for a fallen flag railroad that used to operate on the route. Between Union Station and , the North Central Service shares tracks with the Milwaukee District West Line, but does not stop at any of the intermediate stations used by the MD-W between and River Grove. About a mile west of River Grove, this route turns north at a junction known as tower B-12. The rest of the route operates on the Canadian National Railway's Waukesha Subdivision. Until 2020, a single daily inbound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 242 stations on 11 rail lines. It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City metropolitan area. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on November 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally. Metra is the descendant of numerous commuter rail services dating to the 1850s. The present system dates to 1974, when the Illinois General Assembly established the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to consolidate all public transit operations in the Chicago area, including commuter rail. The RTA's creation was a result of the anticipated failure of commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Legion
The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is a non-profit organization of U.S. war veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is made up of state, U.S. territory, and overseas departments, and these are in turn made up of local posts. The organization was formed on March 15, 1919, in Paris, France, by a thousand officers and men of the American Expeditionary Forces (A. E. F.), and it was chartered on September 16, 1919, by the United States Congress. The Legion played the leading role in the drafting and passing of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the " G.I. Bill". In addition to organizing commemorative events, members provide assistance at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics. It is active in issue-oriented U.S. politics. Its primary political activity is lobbying on behalf of interests of veterans and service members, including support for benefits such as pensions and the Veterans Health Administrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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