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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator . [ 2 ]
The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. It operated from 1960 until 1968. It operated from 1960 until 1968. Installation started in late 1959 [ 1 ] after the United States Army had purchased 44 acres (18 ha).
America's Poison Centers owns and manages a large database of information from all poison exposure and information case phone calls to all Poison Centers across the country. It is the only near real-time, comprehensive poisoning surveillance database in the United States.
The observatory (360 Chicago), [11] which competes with the Willis Tower's Skydeck, has a 360° view of the city, up to four states, and a distance of over 80 miles (130 km). 360 Chicago is home to TILT, a moving platform that leans visitors over the edge of the skyscraper to a 30-degree angle, [12] a full bar with local selections, [13 ...
10 South LaSalle (formerly Chemical Plaza, Manufacturers Hanover Plaza, and Chase Plaza) is a 502 ft (153 m) tall skyscraper in the LaSalle Street financial district of Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1989 [ 1 ] and has 37 floors, and is tied with One Superior Place for the 87th tallest building in the city.
The Democratic National Committee projected anti-Trump campaign slogans onto Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday, one day before the Demo c ratic c onvention kicks off.. The messages include "Trump ...
The observatory underwent major renovations and additions in 1956 and 1966 to accommodate the growing faculty (see architecture section below). In 1967, the 12 inch telescope at the observatory made its last professional photometric observations. [5] The University of Illinois' Astronomy Department moved out of the building in 1979.
After a small family of owls made Lincoln Park’s North Pond their home this spring, Chicago residents flocked to the area to try to catch a glimpse of the two great horned owls raising their young.