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| Peoria & Chicago, Illinois | December 2005 |

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The skyline of Chicago at Sunset. (source: wikipedia)

Aon Center and Sears Tower, viewed from the John Hancock Center observatory. (source: wikipedia)

Some info about Peoria and Chicago taken from Wikipedia:

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. Peoria has been awarded the All-America City Award three times. The city of Peoria is home to Bradley University, the world headquarters for Caterpillar Inc. Medicine has become a major part of Peoria's economy. Archaeologists can trace early man in Peoria as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. Artifacts and burial mounds yield evidence of a Native American civilization that was highly organized, ritualistic and in harmony with nature. By 1650, the Illini Indians, a part of the Algonquin Nation, populated the area.

Chicago is the largest city in the Midwestern U.S. state of Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. Known as the "Second City," the "Windy City," the "City of Big Shoulders," and "Chi-town", Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. When combined with its suburbs and nine surrounding counties in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, the greater metropolitan area known as Chicagoland encompasses a population rapidly approaching 10 million people.

In 1998, the City of Chicago officially opened the Museum Campus, a 10 acre lakefront park surrounding three of the city's main museums: the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

Chicago has the tallest building in the United States, the Sears Tower, and many slightly shorter buildings, almost all in the Loop or along North Michigan Avenue. The Sears Tower also has the most floors of any building in the world, and when including its 278-foot-tall western antenna, remains the world's tallest skyscraper. In addition, Chicago has the distinction of being the only city in the World with more than one building containing 100 floors or more. The John Hancock Center, with several floors of condominiums in between business and restaurant spaces, holds the world record for the highest residential floor. The five tallest buildings in Chicago:

Rank	Name	Street Address	Height feet / meters	Floors	Year
1	Sears Tower	233 S. Wacker Dr.	1,451 / 442	108	1974
2	Aon Center	200 E. Randolph St.	1,136 / 346	83	1973
3	John Hancock Center	875 N. Michigan Ave.	1,127 / 344	100	1969
4	AT&T Corporate Center	227 W. Monroe St.	1,007 / 307	61	1989
5	Two Prudential Plaza	180 N. Stetson Ave.	995 / 303	64	1990

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