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July 19, 1984. Designated CL. April 9, 2003. The Chicago Harbor Lighthouse is an automated active lighthouse, and stands at the south end of the northern breakwater protecting the Chicago Harbor, to the east of Navy Pier and the mouth of the Chicago River .
This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States . Sighting by James Everell, who witnessed a light in the sky darting back and forth before finally fading away. [ 1] Sighting by trapper James Lumley of a craft and a subsequent crash, with descriptions of sulfur smells and descriptions of hieroglyphics. [ 2]
21 ft (6.4 m)[25] 1853Baileys Harbor Light. (1853)D. Colorado. [edit] The state of Colorado has only one lighthouse, the Dillon Reservoir Lighthouse, also known as the Lake Dillon Lighthouse. It is located in the Dillon Reservoir(also referred to as Lake Dillon) in Summit County, Colorado.
Gas lamps gradually started replacing oil street lamps in the United States, beginning in the first quarter of the 19th century. [ 3] The first street in the world to be illuminated by gaslight was Pall Mall in London, starting in 1807. [ 1][ 5] The first US city to use gas street lights was Baltimore, starting in 1817. [ 4]
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A geometric storm that launched off the sun a few days ago led to the arrival of the aurora borealis overnight in Minnesota. People reported seeing the northern lights as far ...
The following is a list of lighthouses in the U.S. states of Illinois and Indiana. These two states are listed together as both have very few lighthouses that are confined to the Great Lakes. Illinois "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Illinois". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017 ...
The NWS St. Louis reports southwest Illinois and St. Louis have an 11 to 25% historical probability of a white Christmas, based on data from 1981 to 2010. Local temperatures typically range from ...
The University of Illinois Astronomical Observatory, located at 901 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, was built in 1896, and was designed by Charles A. Gunn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1986, and on December 20, 1989, was designated ...