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  2. Orland Park, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Orland Park is the touted "World's Golf Center". According to village lore, someone counted 1,089 golf holes within a 15-mile radius of the village, said Jodi Marneris, Orland Park's spokeswoman in 1996. The "World's Golf Center" concept was then proudly plastered on the village flag and painted on the town's seven water towers. [14] [15]

  3. ZIP Code - Wikipedia

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    A 1974 postage stamp encouraging people to use the ZIP Code on letters and parcels. A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan[ 1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [ 2] ( zipping along) when senders use the ...

  4. Chicago metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Areaand Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical areain the U.S. stateof Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicagoalong with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km2), the metropolitan area includes ...

  5. Washington metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    UTC−5 ( EST) • Summer ( DST) UTC−4 ( EST) The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.

  6. Greater Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    0.3% 10,524. Greater Los Angeles is a politically divided metropolitan area. During the 1970s and 1980s, the region leaned toward the Republican Party. Los Angeles County, the most populous of the region, is a Democratic stronghold, although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972) and Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984).

  7. List of ZIP Code prefixes - Wikipedia

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    The 925 prefix originally covered only Riverside, California. The surrounding offices were originally under the 923 prefix. The present-day 926 prefix range only covers the southern and coastal portion of Orange County. This includes, Irvine, which originally had only ZIP Code, 92650.

  8. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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    Area 51. Coordinates: 37°14′0″N 115°48′30″W. Homey Airport. Near Rachel, Lincoln County, Nevada in United States. A satellite image taken in 2022 captured by Sentinel-2 of ESA showing the base with Groom Lake just to the north-northeast. Homey Airport.

  9. Greater Boston - Wikipedia

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    Area code(s) 617 , 781 , 857 , 339 , 978 , 508 , 351 , 774 , 603 , 401 Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston , the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas.