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    Dixmoor (formerly Specialville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,973 at the 2020...
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  • The Dixmoor 5 are five African-American men who, as teenagers in Dixmoor, Illinois, were falsely convicted of the November 1991 rape and murder of 14-year-old...
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  • The 1964 Dixmoor race riot, also known as the Gin Bottle Riot, occurred between August 15 and 17 in Dixmoor, Illinois. After a woman accused of shoplifting...
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    population was 20,324 at the 2020 census. Harvey is bordered by the villages of Dixmoor and Riverdale to the north; Dolton, Phoenix, and South Holland to the east;...
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  • West Harvey-Dixmoor Public School District 147 is an elementary school district based in the southern suburban Chicago city of Harvey, Cook County, Illinois...
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    includes all or parts of Crete-Monee, Dolton, Flossmoor, Glenwood, Thornton, Dixmoor, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Harvey, Riverdale, and South Holland...
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  • cases of wrongful guilt. Featured on the documentary West of Memphis. The Dixmoor 5 were a group of men believed to have given false confessions in police...
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    Father Arnold Damen. However, the Robey name is retained in Harvey and Dixmoor as Robey Avenue. Throughout the south suburbs and the neighborhood of Beverly...
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  • Australian international soccer player James Harden, wrongly convicted teen in Dixmoor 5 Sheriff Jim Harden, character in the 1950 western film The Bandit Queen...
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    continuous road to the Dixie Highway at Sibley Boulevard (Illinois Route 83) in Dixmoor, giving the road a total length of 27.38 miles (44.06 km). Western Avenue...
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  • Exonerations. University of Michigan Law School. Retrieved April 22, 2022. "'Dixmoor 5' Sue Over Wrongful Rape, Murder Convictions". CBS Chicago. October 17...
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    was unregistered in 2004 and was sent to National Railway Equipment in Dixmoor, Illinois. It was scrapped on September 24, 2020. The only F40Cs that remain...
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    Dix Village Jefferson 469 461 +1.7% 2.074 5.37 226.1/sq mi (87.3/km2) Dixmoor Village Cook 2,973 3,644 −18.4% 1.249 3.23 2,380.3/sq mi (919.0/km2) Dixon†...
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    55 0.02 5.53 3,471.25 Des Plaines city 60,675 14.38 0.15 14.24 4,261.48 Dixmoor village 2,973 1.25 0.00 1.25 2,380.30 Dolton village 21,426 4.69 0.12 4...
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    merchandise by employees. In January 1979, the City of Harvey allowed the Harvey-Dixmoor School District to use mall space as a temporary school location while...
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    Lansing, 147th Street/Sibley Boulevard though Calumet City, Dolton, Harvey, Dixmoor, then north on Cicero, and then northwest on Cal Sag Road through Cook...
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    Chicago   Alsip / Robbins   Calumet Park   Midlothian Riverdale   Posen / Dixmoor As of the 2020 census there were 22,558 people, 7,926 households, and 5...
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    District at Ashland and 37th Street Location Park Forest, Olympia Fields, Dixmoor, Blue Island, Chicago, Evanston South end County Line Road west of Sollitt...
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  • story February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03) 207 "Not Enough Ednas" Fairbanks Four Dixmoor 5 January 30, 2020 (2020-01-30) Minisode "MFM Minisode 159" Badass great-grandma...
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    Street on the south. Blue Island (southern edge) Burnham Calumet City Dixmoor Dolton East Hazel Crest Glenwood (northern quarter) Harvey (vast majority)...
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  • 145 Tinley Park Community Consolidated School District 146 West Harvey-Dixmoor Public School District 147 Dolton Riverdale School District 148 Dolton...
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  • police and rioters were injured, Jersey City, NJ 1964 – Dixmoor race riot, August 15–17, Dixmoor, Illinois 1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot, August 28–30...
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    67%) is water.   Chicago   Calumet Park Chicago   Blue Island   Dolton   Dixmoor Dolton   Harvey / Dolton Riverdale is home to two stations on the Metra...
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    144 Arbor Park 145 Tinley Park Community Consolidated 146 West Harvey-Dixmoor 147 Dolton West 148 District 149 South Holland 150 South Holland 151 Harvey...
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    144 Arbor Park 145 Tinley Park Community Consolidated 146 West Harvey-Dixmoor 147 Dolton West 148 District 149 South Holland 150 South Holland 151 Harvey...
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    All scrapped. SW1500 7 1968 Switch service, work trains Sold to NRE in Dixmoor, Illinois in 2015 due to an internal engine failure, and was scrapped due...
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  • race riot, August 11–13, Elizabeth, New Jersey Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor race riot, August 16–17, Chicago Watts riot of 1965; Los Angeles, California...
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    South Holland, Dolton, Lansing, Calumet City, Harvey, Riverdale, Phoenix, Dixmoor, Burnham, and Blue Island in Illinois, connecting to the Cal-Sag Channel...
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  • race riot, August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States) 1964 – Dixmoor 1964 race riot August 16–17 (Chicago, United States) 1964 – Philadelphia...
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  • 144 Arbor Park 145 Tinley Park Community Consolidated 146 West Harvey-Dixmoor 147 Dolton West 148 District 149 South Holland 150 South Holland 151 Harvey...
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