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    Hammond is a village in Piatt County, Illinois, United States. The population was 508 at the 2020 census. Hammond was named for Charles Goodrich Hammond...
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    Park merged under the name of West Hammond, since it lies on the west side of the Illinois-Indiana line from Hammond, Indiana. In 1916, when alcohol was...
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  • California Hammond Castle, a castle located in Gloucester, Massachusetts Hammond, Georgia, now Sandy Springs, Georgia Hammond, Illinois Hammond, Indiana...
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    south, Hammond runs from Lake Michigan down to the Little Calumet River; from east to west along its southern border, it runs from the Illinois state line...
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    Virginia Brooks (category People from Calumet City, Illinois)
    of Illinois. Brooks moved to West Hammond, Illinois, with her mother after inheriting land valued at about $39,000 from her father. West Hammond was...
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    the Novachord. Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Illinois, on January 11, 1895 to William Andrew and Idea Louise Strong Hammond. Laurens showed his great...
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    powder is "Calumet", first introduced in Hammond, Indiana and West Hammond, Illinois (later Calumet City, Illinois) in 1889. Both forms of food-grade chemical...
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    Jeremy Alexander Hammond was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, with his twin brother Jason. Hammond became interested...
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    A 1912 portrait of Frankie Fore, sitting in a room during a vice raid in Calumet City (formerly known as West Hammond), Illinois....
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    Hammond. The highways travel concurrently to Chicago. I-90 Toll in Hammond Illinois I-90 Toll in Chicago I-55 in Chicago US 14 in Chicago US 14 in Chicago...
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  • The partnership lasted until the early 1950s. In 1929, Hammond was named State of Illinois Supervising Architect in the Department of Purchases and...
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    The Hammond Clock Company of Chicago (Illinois) produced electric clocks between 1928 and 1941. It was one of the ventures of Laurens Hammond, the inventor...
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    Jason Guida (category Mixed martial artists from Illinois)
    Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Clay Guida. Born and raised in Illinois, Guida began wrestling in elementary school, he is four years older than...
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    (WAC(I)), where she became its poster girl. She died on 7 March 1988 in Hammond, Illinois. James, Lawrence (2013). Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist...
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    Hammond Gateway station is a South Shore Line station in Hammond, Indiana. It is intended to serve as the interchange point to the Monon Corridor, which...
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    WJYS (category Hammond, Indiana)
    WJYS (channel 62) is an independent television station licensed to Hammond, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. Owned by Millennial Telecommunications...
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  • Payette  Idaho /  Oregon Weiser Chicago and Hammond  Illinois /  Indiana East St. Louis and St. Louis  Illinois /  Missouri The Quad Cities: Rock Islands...
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    Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, located 45 miles (72 km) east of Baton Rouge and 45 miles (72 km) northwest...
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    and west, and Hammond, Indiana, to the east.   Chicago   Chicago Hammond, Indiana   Calumet City   Hammond, Indiana   Calumet City Hammond, Indiana   Calumet...
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  • Benson, Illinois – $19,358 New Salem, Illinois – $19,351 Farmington, Illinois – $19,336 Sauget, Illinois – $19,330 Cherry, Illinois – $19,313 Hammond, Illinois...
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    in Harvey, Illinois, starting in 1907 and eventually became the company's president and chairman of the board. During World War I, Hammond served as an...
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    Chicago and New Orleans. The Illinois Central Railroad built the station in 1912. A freight station was built in Hammond in 1927 a few blocks south; however...
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    Calumet Region of Indiana and Illinois. The Little Calumet River overflowed onto streets and Interstate 80. Parts of Gary, Hammond, and other areas were evacuated...
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    as Ivanhoe Interlocking (5 miles (8.0 km) east of downtown Hammond and the Indiana-Illinois border) at an estimated speed of 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)...
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    The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models were produced, which...
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    Chicago region. Wolf Lake is located between Hammond, Indiana and the Hegewisch community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was once connected by an open channel...
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    Central Illinois. Louisiana I-10 in LaPlace US 51 northeast of LaPlace. The highways travel concurrently to Hammond. I-12 in Hammond US 190 in Hammond Mississippi...
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    of Chicago's Avenue G, just west of the State Line Generating Plant of Hammond, Indiana. Since 1988 it has been 159.359 miles (256.463 km) north of the...
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    Central Hammond is a neighborhood in western Hammond, Indiana, approximately between the Illinois state line and White Oak Avenue, north of 165th Street...
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    Showmen's Rest (category Cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois)
    They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Hessville, Indiana, (about 51⁄2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty...
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