Chicago Suburbs stories:
Lysacek braves Skate America curse
Nov 15th, 2009 - ESPN
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- It's been 25 years since the reigning men's figure skating world champion managed to follow that feat with an Olympic gold medal. He was an American named Scott Hamilton...Dunkin' Donuts to launch 99-cent menu in Chicago
Nov 6th, 2009 - Forbes
CHICAGO -- Dunkin' Donuts said Friday it will launch a new 99-cent menu at 500 Chicago locations on Monday and hand out 20,000 gift cards pre-loaded with $2 each to lure customers. The 99-cent menu includes a sausage...
20 years later, former teenage cocaine kingpin in Chicago now deals hot dogs instead of drugs
Sep 6th, 2009 - baltimoresun
MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) - Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they're lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The one-time "drug kingpin," as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s...
Former cocaine kingpin now serves dogs, not drugs
Sep 6th, 2009 - Boston
MARKHAM, Ill.—Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they're lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The one-time "drug kingpin," as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s...
4 Chicago suburbs top 'best places to live' - Chicago Sun
Jul 13th, 2009 - Chicago Sun-Times
View Best Places to Live in Illinois in a larger map View Best Places to Live in Illinois in a larger map Four Chicago suburban areas top "best places to live" lists published today by Money Magazine.
Chicago Suburbs videos from YouTube:
2:11Tornado crossing I-57 6-7-08 Chicago Suburbs
Clip 2 of the same tornado crossing I-57. Moderate damage was noted and a semi truck and SUV were flipped over. I was actually near mile marker 335, not 355, luckily they knew where I was already talking about ...
2:19Halloween House in Suburbs of Chicago Illinois
This house is located in Worth, Illinois in the southwest burbs of Chicago. The lights are computerized and synchronized to music including "This is Halloween", "The Halloween Theme", "Tales from the Crypt" and many more! If you happen to go down W ...
9:33Lightning Storm over Chicago Suburbs
Video of a massive lightning storm over the Chicago Suburbs. Be patient, it was shot with a MacBook Pro/iSight. There is a lot of darkness, but worth the wait to see some awesome lightning!
7:225 Way Meetup in the Chicago Suburbs
We have Xaiver80, DJCipster4BREAKS,slowfaller, LJ, and SuburbanRyder. Gathering for the meetup and camp out.
Chicago Suburbs from WikiPedia:
The Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago in the United States and its suburbs. It is the area that is closely linked to the city through social, economic, and cultural ties. There are several definitions of the area, the two most common being the area under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (a metropolitan planning organization), and the area defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet-Gary, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
There is some dispute as to what forms the Chicago metropolitan area, as the boundaries are not usually specific.
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is responsible for transportation infrastructure, land use, and long term economic development planning for the areas under its jurisdiction. The area has a population of 8.15 million (as of the 2000 Census). It consists of the seven core counties in the metropolitan area, all in the state of Illinois:
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