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The Illinois Lottery began operations on July 1, 1974, [ 1] when lotteries in the United States were confined to areas of the Northeast and Midwest . The drawings are supervised by an independent auditor who certifies the winning results. Illinois was the only single jurisdictional state lottery to have their drawings televised nationwide ...
The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ( ISTHA) is an administrative agency of the U.S. state of Illinois charged with building, operating, and maintaining toll roads in the state. The roads, as well as the authority itself, are sometimes referred to as the Illinois Tollway. [ a] The system opened in 1958 in the Chicago area, and has ...
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [ 1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
Ventra. Ventra is an electronic fare payment system for Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois) which replaced the Chicago Card and the Transit Card automated fare collection systems. Ventra (purportedly Latin for "windy," though the actual Latin word is ventosa) [ 1] launched in August 2013, with a full system transition occurring in July ...
An Illinois Tollway oasis is a type of commercialized rest area sited over Interstate Highways that are part of the Illinois Tollway system in northern Illinois, United States. The four (formerly seven) oases offer food and gasoline vendors and are found in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, DeKalb, and Belvidere. Although the oases date back to ...
July 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM. CHICAGO - A new scam is targeting Chicago residents with fraudulent text messages claiming they have unpaid parking tickets. The texts include a link to a fake website ...
Map. Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (pronounced /mɛgz/, formerly ICAO: KCGX, FAA LID: CGX) was a single-runway airport in Chicago that was in operation from 1948 to 2003, when it was bulldozed overnight by then-mayor Richard M. Daley. The airport was located on Northerly Island, an artificial peninsula on Lake Michigan adjacent to downtown ...
SeatGeek Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, about twelve miles southwest of downtown Chicago. It is the home stadium of the Chicago Red Stars [ 9] of the National Women's Soccer League, Chicago Fire FC II of the MLS Next Pro, and the Chicago Hounds of the Major League Rugby. The stadium has also hosted the Chicago ...