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Chicago O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD), also known as O'Hare Airport, Chicago International Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare (/oʊˈhɛər/), is an international airport located on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Loop. It is the primary airport serving the Chicago metropolitan area, with Midway International Airport, which is about 10 miles (16 km) closer to the Loop and serves as a secondary airport. It is operated by the City of Chicago Department of Aviation. O'Hare was the busiest airport in the world by the number of takeoffs and landings in 2014.

Park Ridge is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a Chicago suburb. The population was 37,480 at the 2010 census. It is located 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. It is close to O'Hare International Airport, major expressways, and rail transportation. It is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area, bordering two northwestern neighborhoods of Chicago's Far North Side (Edison Park and Norwood Park). As its name suggests, Park Ridge lies on a ridge. The soil is abundant with clay deposits, which made it a brick-making center for the developing city of Chicago. Park Ridge's most recognizable landmark is the Pickwick Theatre, an Art Deco building dating back to 1928. It is a movie theater and a venue for plays and concerts.

Arlington Heights is a village in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city's downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census. Arlington Heights is known for Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, a Breeders' Cup qualifying event; it also hosted the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2002. The village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections in the state. Overall it is a high-end place to live, work, shop, and filled with lively society events.

The preserves are a network of open spaces, containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes, that are mostly set aside as natural areas. Cook County contains Chicago, and is the center of a densely populated urban metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois. The Forest Preserves encompass approximately 68,000 acres (275 km²) of open space within the urban surroundings of Chicago. It contains facilities for recreation, as well as a zoo (Brookfield Zoo) and a botanic garden (Chicago Botanic Gardens). The Forest Preserve District also maintains eleven public golf courses. There are six nature centers used for programming and education, five campgrounds, and three swimming centers in addition to miles of hiking, biking, and riding trails.

The Gold Coast consists mostly of high-rise apartment buildings and stone mansions throughout. As with many neighborhoods, its exact borders are subject to dispute; but, generally, they are North Avenue, to the north, Chicago Avenue, to the south, and Clark Street, to the west. The Gold Coast became the home of the super-rich, and includes upscale boutiques and shops. Many of Chicago's best known restaurants are also located here.

Old Town is now considered an affluent and historic neighborhood, home to many of Chicago's older Victorian-era buildings. Many of the streets and alleys, particularly in the Old Town Triangle section, predate the Great Chicago Fire and do not all adhere to the typical Chicago grid pattern. Old Town was home to many gays and lesbians starting from the 1950s, but they have since moved to Boystown. Old Town remains as a history slum of falling apart historic buildings.

Goose Island is a 160 acres (0.65 km2) artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across at its widest point. In the late 19th century, Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Co. purchased land at the east of the island for industrial plants. The area was nicknamed "Little Hell" because of the smoke produced by the plants. By 1887 there were two grain elevators, eleven coal yards, and a railroad. By the turn of the 20th century many residents began to move off the island and some businesses also deserted it. Ghosts and haunting of the original Irish settlers are rumored to creep at night.

River North is a dynamic and growing technology-driven neighborhood known for its fine dining, galleries, nightlife, and riverwalk amenities. It includes the areas of Smokey Hollow, Little Sicily, Cabrini-Green, and the more affordable, high-middle-class gallery district, many themed tourist restaurants, the cathedral district, design district, and Kingsbury Park - a more "affordable" residential high-rises.

The current LBGT community thriving in Chicago, postdating the Old Town Lake View neighborhood. There are numerous gay bars along Wells Street, in addition to housing, shops, restaurants. Overall Old Town is the hip place to be for the young adult generation.

For much of its history this Section was used for Illinois Central rail yards, including the IC's Great Central Station, with commercial buildings along Michigan Avenue. Most of this district has been developed on land that was originally water and once used by the Illinois Central Railroad rail yards. The triple-level street system allows for trucks to mainly travel and make deliveries on the lower levels, keeping traffic to a minimum on the upper levels. Through north–south traffic uses Middle Columbus and the bridge over the Chicago River. East–west through traffic uses either Middle Randolph or Upper and Middle Wacker between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive.

Dearborn Station at the south end of Printers Row, is the oldest train station still standing in Chicago; it has been converted to retail and office space. Most of the area south of Congress Parkway between Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, excepting Chinatown, is referred to as the South Loop. The neighborhood includes former railyards that have been redeveloped as new-town-in-town such as Dearborn Park and Central Station. Former warehouses and factory lofts have been converted to residential buildings, while new townhouses and highrises have been developed on vacant or underused land. The South Loop was historically home to vice districts, including the brothels, bars, burlesque theaters, and arcades. Inexpensive residential hotels on Van Buren and State Street made it one of the city's Skid Rows until the 1970s. One of the largest homeless shelters in the city, the Pacific Garden Mission, is located at State and Balbo.

Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The Navy Pier currently encompasses more than fifty acres of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants, family attractions and exhibition facilities and is the top leisure destination in the Midwest. The Pier Ferris Wheel, one of the most iconic attractions for the pier, is 196 feet (60 m) tall, 46 feet.

Spanning around 50 miles of coastline, Lake Michigan frames the city of Chicago. The city used to use the lake as a dumping ground until garbage, rotting meat and sewage started washing up on the beaches and forced a clean up effort. There are still those who use the lake to get rid of items they don’t want to leave lying around... *WoD

Union Station, one of the busiest train stations in the United States. The El, slanged 'L', the hub of inter-city travel, share tracks and locations together in The Loop. Union Station carries you out of Illinois, and The El can take you around Chicago and its suburbs.

Englewood is a tangle of overgrown lots, abandoned multi-family homes, open-air drug markets (marked by shoes dangling from power lines) and boarded-up garages. Plenty of good people live here, unable to escape the sucking gravity of poverty (and the blood-sucking monsters attracted to it). Englewood’s reputation is so bad, however, that it stains surrounding neighborhoods and attracts foul souls looking to get away with evil. souls looking for a place to get away with evil.

The Chinatown in Chicago is a traditional urban ethnic enclave, occupying a large portion of the Armour Square region on the city's near south side. The intersection of Wentworth Avenue at Cermak Road is the neighborhood's historic epicenter.

The area was home to the famous Union Stock Yards that were on Chicago's south side until closed in 1971. Back of the Yards is an industrial and residential neighborhood so named because it was near the former Union Stock Yards, which employed thousands of European immigrants in the early 20th century. The Canaryville neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Chicago and, with neighboring Bridgeport, has a reputation for insularity or hostility to outsiders.

Trapped in the otherwise nightmarish South Side are the University of Chicago and the bubble of relative sanity that surrounds it: Hyde Park. With its highly educated and relatively affluent community, Hyde Park is the largest continuous break in the slums and ghettos of the South Side. *WoD

The gothic style buildings of this state public University makes it quite the site. The sprawling campus green areas are manicured and kept tidy by the grounds crew despite the number of homeless who often take shelter under the trees. Many of the buildings are open to the public, but some, like the research labs, are for students and facility only.