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76-520: The Lisle campus resides in the western Chicago metropolitan area , located near two national research facilities, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . Benedictine University, also called BenU, was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey, who lived in the Pilsen community of Chicago's West Side. The monks created

152-564: A 200-mile (320 km) radius in every direction and reported on many different places in the area. The Tribune was the dominant newspaper in a vast area stretching to the west of the city, and that hinterland was closely tied to the metropolis by rail lines and commercial links. Today, the Chicago Tribune' s usage includes the city of Chicago, the rest of Cook County , eight nearby Illinois counties (Lake, McHenry , DuPage , Kane , Kendall , Grundy , Will , and Kankakee ), and

228-533: A 2020 census population of 9,618,502 and the combined statistical area, which spans 19 counties and additionally extends into southeast Wisconsin , had a population of nearly 10 million people. The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the fourth-largest metropolitan area in North America (after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles), and the largest in

304-769: A 40-seat real-time trading lab that provides hands-on investing experience, a 7,500-square-foot main hall and a café. The Lisle campus' additionally features the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum , a small natural history museum located on the second floor of the Birck Hall of Science. The museum represents the work of Frs. Edmund and Hilary Jurica, O.S.B., who collected specimens for their students to use during their almost 100 combined years of teaching at Benedictine University, and Fr. Theodore Suchy, O.S.B. (d. 2012), who served as museum curator for more than 30 years. The museum has continued to collect specimens since

380-898: A Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) or Master of Science in Management Information Systems (M.S.M.I.S.) from Benedictine University through its partnerships with two Chinese universities – Shenyang University of Technology (SUT) and Shenyang Jianzu University (SJZU) – formed in the early 2000s. In 2009, Benedictine partnered with two universities in Vietnam—the Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi and Binh Dong University in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)—to offer graduate programs in business administration and management information systems. In 2012, Benedictine received approval from

456-704: A branch campus named Benedictine University at Springfield and Springfield College in Illinois ceased all academic programs in August 2011. On February 27, 2018, the Benedictine University Board of Trustees and the Board of Springfield College in Illinois announced that the Springfield property would be offered for sale. As of the end of the 2018 spring semester, courses were no longer offered at

532-562: A commercial co-working space. Benedictine leases this downtown facility from the city, a lease which ends in 2038, with an option to purchase beginning in 2033. Benedictine University offers 59 undergraduate majors through The College of Science, The College of Liberal Arts, The Daniel L. Goodwin College of Business, and The College of Education and Health Services. It also offers 19 graduate programs, 34 graduate certificates, and 4 doctoral programs. More than 1,000 students have graduated with

608-474: A dorsal fin, situated about two-thirds the way back. Most rorquals feed by gulping in water, and then pushing it out through the baleen plates with their tongue; the exception is the gray whale , which gulps in and filters large amounts of marine sediments from the seafloor. They feed on crustaceans , such as krill , but also on various fish, such as herrings and sardines . Gestation in rorquals lasts 11–12 months, so that both mating and birthing occur at

684-479: A large number of White , Black , Latino , Asian , and Arab American residents, and also has Native American residents in the region, making the Chicago metropolitan area population truly diverse. The Chicago metropolitan area represents about 3 percent of the entire US population. Chicagoland has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies. With more than six million full and part-time employees,

760-533: A new species of balaenopterid, Omura's whale ( Balaenoptera omurai ), was announced in November 2003, which looks similar to, but smaller than, the fin whale ; individuals of this species were found in Indo-Pacific waters. The discovery of the highly endangered Rice's whale was announced in 2021 after a genetic study found it to be distinct from Bryde's whale ; this species is known from a small portion of

836-580: A partnership with Co+Hoots , a private co-working business based in Phoenix, Arizona, to explore innovative educational opportunities, which includes establishment of a " certificate program in entrepreneurship ". The partnership, which fits into the city's plan to create a "downtown innovation district", included renovation and expansion of Mesa's downtown campus facility at 225 E. Main Street to include space which would be provided "rent-free" to Co+Hoots as

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912-724: A population of over 8 million, which includes the following locations in Illinois: The city of Chicago lies in the Chicago Plain, a flat and broad area characterized by little topographical relief. The few low hills are sand ridges. North of the Chicago Plain, steep bluffs and ravines run alongside Lake Michigan. Along the southern shore of the Chicago Plain, sand dunes run alongside the lake. The tallest dunes reach up to near 200 feet (61 m) and are found in Indiana Dunes National Park . Surrounding

988-508: A tremendous rate since the early 1960s. Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, and Naperville are noteworthy for being four of the few boomburbs outside the Sun Belt , West Coast and Mountain States regions, and exurban Kendall County ranked as the fastest-growing county (among counties with a population greater than 10,000) in the United States between the years 2000 and 2007. Settlement patterns in

1064-422: A unique sensory organ consisting of a bundle of mechanoreceptors that helps their brains to coordinate the engulfment action. Furthermore, their large nerves are flexible so that they can stretch and recoil. In fact, they give rorquals the ability to open their mouths so wide that they would be capable of taking in water at volumes greater than their own sizes. These nerves are packed into a central core area that

1140-510: Is an extreme feeding method, where the whale accelerates to a high velocity and then opens its mouth to a large gape angle. This generates the water pressure required to expand its mouth and engulf and filter a huge amount of water and fish. The gray whale does not lunge feed, as it gulps in sediments from the seafloor rather than water. Rorquals have a number of anatomical features that enable them to do this, including bilaterally separate mandibles , throat pleats that can expand to huge size, and

1216-474: Is further subdivided into four metropolitan divisions. A breakdown of the county constituents and 2021 estimated populations of the four metropolitan divisions of the MSA are as follows: Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (9,509,934) The OMB also defines a slightly larger region as a Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The Chicago–Naperville, IL–IN–WI Combined Statistical Area combines

1292-911: Is home to the largest futures exchange in the world, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . In March 2008, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings Inc, the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Commodity Exchange. CME'S acquisition of NYMEX was completed in August 2008. A key piece of infrastructure for several generations was the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, which from 1865 until 1971 penned and slaughtered millions of cattle and hogs into standardized cuts of beef and pork . This prompted poet Carl Sandburg to describe Chicago as

1368-553: Is part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis , containing an estimated 54 million people. The term " collar counties " is a colloquialism for the five counties (DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry , and Will) of Illinois that border Chicago's Cook County. After Cook County, they are also the next five most populous counties in the state. According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago , there is no specifically known origin of

1444-487: Is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The interurban South Shore Line runs between Downtown Chicago and the northwest Indiana portion of the metropolitan area. In addition, Amtrak operates Union Station in Downtown Chicago as one of its largest rail hubs, with numerous lines radiating to and from the station. CTA bus routes serve the city proper, with some service into the suburbs. Pace bus routes serve

1520-594: Is surrounded by elastin fibers. Opening the mouth causes the nerves to unfold, and they snap back after the mouth is closed. According to Potvin and Goldbogen, lunge feeding in rorquals represents the largest biomechanical event on Earth. Formerly, the rorqual family Balaenopteridae was split into two subfamilies, the Balaenopterinae and the Megapterinae , with each subfamily containing one genus, Balaenoptera and Megaptera , respectively. However,

1596-576: Is the West Side , which has a somewhat lower median income, but the western suburbs contain many affluent and upper-middle class areas. According to the 2000 Census, DuPage County as a whole had the highest median household income of any county in the Midwestern United States , although there are individual cities and towns in other surrounding counties in the metro that have even higher median incomes. According to 2022 estimates from

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1672-516: Is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois , and the Midwest , containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km ), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hinterland , that span 13 counties across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana . The MSA had

1748-591: Is the nation's oldest continuously operating junior college today. Later U of C president Robert Maynard Hutchins was central to the Great Books movement, and programs of dialogic education arising from that legacy can be found today at the U of C, at Shimer College , and in the City Colleges of Chicago and Oakton College in the Northwest suburbs. From 1947 until 1988, the Illinois portion of

1824-641: The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times . Local television channels broadcasting to the Chicago market include WBBM-TV 2 (CBS), WMAQ-TV 5 (NBC), WLS-TV 7 (ABC), WGN-TV 9 (Ind), WTTW 11 (PBS), MeTV 23, WCIU 26 (CW), WFLD 32 (FOX), WCPX-TV 38 ( Ion ), WSNS-TV 44 (Telemundo), WPWR-TV 50 (MyNetworkTV), and WJYS-TV 62 (The Way). Radio stations serving the area include: WBBM (AM) , WBEZ , WGN (AM) , WMBI , WLS (AM) , and WSCR . Elementary and secondary education within

1900-628: The Chicago Automobile Trade Association 's "Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana" advertising campaign are directed at the MSA itself, as well as LaSalle, Winnebago ( Rockford ), Boone , and Ogle counties in Illinois, in addition to Jasper , Newton , and La Porte counties in Indiana and Kenosha , Racine , and Walworth counties in Wisconsin, and even as far northeast as Berrien County, Michigan . The region

1976-595: The Great Lakes megalopolis . Its urban area is one of the 40 largest in the world . According to the 2020 Census , the metropolitan's population is approaching the 10 million mark. The metropolitan area has seen a substantial increase of Latin American residents on top of its already large Latino population, and the Asian American population also increased according to the 2020 Census. The metro area has

2052-635: The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are consistently ranked as two of the best universities in the world. There are many transportation options around the region. Chicagoland has three separate rail networks; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra , and the South Shore Line . The CTA operates elevated and subway lines that run primarily throughout

2128-588: The Norwegian word røyrkval : the first element røyr originated from the Old Norse name for this type of whale, reyðr , probably related to the Norse word for "red", and the second from the Norse word hvalr meaning "whale" in general. The family name Balaenopteridae is from the type genus , Balaenoptera . All members of the family have a series of longitudinal folds of skin running from below

2204-509: The humpback whale (which is oceanic but passes close to shore when migrating). It is the largest and the smallest types — the blue whale and Antarctic minke whale — that occupy the coldest waters in the extreme south; the fin whale tends not to approach so close to the ice shelf; the sei whale tends to stay further north again. (In the northern hemisphere, where the continents distort weather patterns and ocean currents , these movements are less obvious, although still present.) Within each species,

2280-512: The phylogeny of the various rorqual species shows the current division is paraphyletic , and in 2005, the division into subfamilies was dropped. Two genetic studies, one in 2018 and one in 2020, suggest that the gray whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) be counted among the rorquals, being more derived than the two minke whales but basal to the humpback whale , fin whale , and the other taxa classified in Balaenoptera . The discovery of

2356-575: The "Hog Butcher for the World". The Chicago area, meanwhile, began to produce significant quantities of telecommunications gear, electronics, steel, crude oil derivatives, automobiles, and industrial capital goods. By the early 2000s, Illinois' economy had moved toward a dependence on high-value-added services, such as financial trading, higher education , logistics , and health care. In some cases, these services clustered around institutions that hearkened back to Illinois's earlier economies. For example,

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2432-495: The Chicago Combined Statistical Area at the time. Within the boundary of the 16-county Chicago Combined Statistical Area lies the Chicago urban area , as well as 26 smaller urban areas. Some of the urban areas below may partially cross into other statistical areas. Only those situated primarily within the Chicago combined statistical area are listed here. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to

2508-588: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a trading exchange for global derivatives , had begun its life as an agricultural futures market . In 2007, the area ranked first among U.S. metro areas in the number of new and expanded corporate facilities. It ranked third in 2008, behind the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown and Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan areas , and ranked second behind the New York metropolitan area in 2009. The Wall Street Journal summarized

2584-583: The Chicago Public Schools compared to those in some neighboring suburban schools. Historically, the Chicago metropolitan area has been at the center of a number of national educational movements, from the free-flowing Winnetka Plan to the regimented Taylorism of the Gary Plan . In higher education, University of Chicago founder William Rainey Harper was a leading early advocate of the junior college movement; Joliet Junior College

2660-575: The Chicago area's economy in November 2006 with the comment that "Chicago has survived by repeatedly reinventing itself." Chicago has been at the center of the United States' railroad network since the 19th century. Almost all Class I railroads serve the area, the most in North America. In addition to the Chicago Loop , the metro area is home to a few important subregional corridors of commercial activities. Among them are: Listing of

2736-401: The Chicago metro area was served by a single area code , 312, which abutted the 815 area code. In 1988 the 708 area code was introduced and the 312 area code became exclusive to the city of Chicago. Rorqual Balaenoptera Megaptera Eschrichtiidae ? Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951 Rhachianectidae Weber 1904 Rorquals ( / ˈ r ɔːr k w əl z / ) are

2812-537: The Chicago metropolitan area is a key factor of the Illinois economy, as the state has an annual GDP of over $ 1 trillion. The Chicago metropolitan area generated an annual gross regional product (GRP) of approximately $ 700 billion in 2018. The region is home to more than 400 major corporate headquarters, including 31 in the Fortune 500 such as McDonald's, United, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. With many companies moving to Chicagoland, and many current companies expanding,

2888-541: The Chicago metropolitan area is provided by dozens of different school districts, of which by far the largest is the Chicago Public Schools with 400,000 students. Numerous private and religious school systems are also found in the region, as well as a growing number of charter schools . Racial inequalities in education in the region remain widespread, often breaking along district boundaries; for instance, educational prospects vary widely for students in

2964-400: The Chicago metropolitan area tend to follow those in the city proper: the northern and northwestern suburbs are generally affluent and upper-middle class , while the southern suburbs (sometimes known as Chicago Southland ) have somewhat lower median incomes and a cost of living, with the exception being the southwest suburbs which contain many upper-middle class areas. Another exception to this

3040-1048: The Forbes list in 2020. The athletic teams at the Lisle campus are called the Eagles. The campus is a member at the NCAA Division III ranks, primarily competing in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) since the 2006–07 academic year. The Eagles previously competed in the defunct Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference (NIIC) until after the 2005–06 school year. Benedictine–Lisle competes in 19 intercollegiate athletic programs: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, track & field and volleyball, while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, track & field and volleyball. The athletic teams at

3116-517: The Juricas' deaths in the early 1970s and now has a collection numbering more than 10,000 specimens ranging from small invertebrates to a rorqual skeleton. The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum is open to the public as well as to school groups. Benedictine's Lisle campus has 2,885 undergraduate students of which 44 percent are male and 56 percent are female, and the student body represents 50 states and territories, and 15 countries. Approximately one-third of

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3192-957: The Kindlon Hall of Learning and the Birck Hall of Science in 2001 and the Neff Alumni Center in 2012, and in 2015, Benedictine opened the Daniel L. Goodwin Hall of Business, which features the Trading Lab and a 600-seat auditorium. After recognizing that there is great demand for American business programs overseas, Benedictine joined forces with Shenyang University of Technology and Shenyang Jianzhu University in China to bring Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management Information Systems programs there. The Springfield, Illinois branch campus of Benedictine University

3268-901: The Mesa campus are called the Redhawks. The campus is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the California Pacific Conference (Cal Pac) since the 2015–16 academic year. Benedictines–Mesa competes in 15 intercollegiate athletic programs: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and volleyball, while women's sports include basketball, beach volleyball, golf, soccer, softball and volleyball. Club sports include badminton, bowling, eSports and spirit squad. The men's and women's golf, cross country, volleyball and tennis teams played their first season at

3344-651: The Mesa campus had 568 students, and 76 faculty and staff. The university also provides degree-completion programs and graduate degrees. Its athletic teams are known as the Redhawks and compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics as a member of the California Pacific Conference. Student athletes compete in men's and women's cross country, golf, basketball, soccer, baseball and softball, and volleyball, including women's beach volleyball. In 2019, Mesa established

3420-820: The Ministry of Education in China to offer a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) through a partnership with Dalian Medical University. U.S. News & World Report listed Benedictine among its best colleges in 2019 (ranked #221 [tie] in National Universities). Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America’s Top Colleges" for the ninth consecutive year in 2019 (ranked #566 in Top Colleges, #362 in Private Colleges, and #222 in Research Universities). Benedictine did not make

3496-502: The Springfield branch campus. Benedictine University moved to Lisle, Illinois, in the far western suburbs of Chicago and DuPage County, in 1901. After the dedication of Benedictine Hall, new buildings were added throughout the early 1900s. Although it had admitted women from time to time, the college became fully coeducational in 1968. In 1971, it changed its name to Illinois Benedictine College. In response to community needs, graduate, doctorate and adult learner programs were added. In 1996,

3572-463: The U.S. Census, poverty rates of the largest counties from least poverty to most are as follows: McHenry 4.0%, Dupage 6.7%, Will 6.9%, Kane 7.8%, Lake 8.0%, and Cook 13.6%. However, Cook County, which contains luxury high rises and expensive houses in sections of the city and expensive houses along the waterfront in the North Shore area, would also have the highest percentage of expensive homes in

3648-433: The all-male institution just two years after their community began, with the intention of educating men of Czech and Slovak descent. While the school was called a college from its founding, it did not begin offering post-secondary courses until after it moved from Chicago to rural Lisle in 1901. It became fully accredited in 1957 and, as the area around it transitioned from rural to suburban, it grew substantially. Also in 1957,

3724-481: The area ranked as the nation's top metropolitan area for corporation relocations and expansions for nine consecutive years, the most consecutive years for any region in the country. The Chicago area is home to a number of the nation's leading research universities including the University of Chicago , Northwestern University , the University of Illinois at Chicago , DePaul University , Loyola University , and

3800-486: The city, Downtown Chicago , and into some suburbs. The CTA operates some of its rail lines 24 hours a day, every day of the year, nonstop service, making Chicago, New York City, and Copenhagen the only three cities in the world to offer some 24 hour rail service running nonstop, everyday throughout their city limits. The Metra commuter rail network runs numerous lines between Downtown Chicago and suburban/satellite cities, with one line stretching to Kenosha, Wisconsin , which

3876-511: The club level in the 2014–15 school year. Both campuses also offer intramurals, group fitness classes and club sports. Benedictine students play men's tennis, men's lacrosse, ping pong, spirit squad, eSports, bowling and badminton as club sports. Chicago metropolitan area Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN MSA Other Statistical Areas in the Chicago CSA The Chicago metropolitan area , also referred to as Chicagoland ,

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3952-539: The college was renamed Benedictine University. The Birck Hall of Science and the Kindlon Hall of Learning were built in 2001. The Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex, a unique cooperative venture between a governmental body and private university, was dedicated in 2005. Renovation of the Dan and Ada Rice Center was completed in October 2011. The rapid growth of the Daniel L. Goodwin College of Business created

4028-619: The common (northern) and Antarctic (southern) minke whale species are found in all the oceans of their respective hemispheres; either of Bryde's whale and Eden's whale occur in the Atlantic , Pacific , and Indian oceans, being absent only from the cold waters of the Arctic and Antarctic ; and the gray whale is found in the northern Pacific Ocean, although it was also found in the Atlantic Ocean in historic times. Rice's whale has

4104-404: The contours of a contiguous territory inhabited at urban density levels. It usually incorporates the population in a city, plus that in the contiguous urban, or built-up area. Chicagoland is an informal name for the Chicago metropolitan area. The term Chicagoland has no official definition, and the region is often considered to include areas beyond the corresponding MSA, as well as portions of

4180-402: The corporate headquarters of 57 Fortune 1000 companies, including AbbVie Inc. , Allstate , Kraft Heinz , McDonald's , Mondelez International , Motorola , United Airlines , Walgreens , and more . The Chicago area also headquarters a wide variety of global financial institutions including Citadel LLC , Discover Financial Services , Morningstar, Inc. , CNA Financial , and more. Chicago

4256-408: The following core-based statistical areas , listed with their 2021 estimated populations. The combined statistical area as a whole had a population of 9,806,184 as of 2022. The Chicago urban agglomeration , according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2023 revision), lists a population of 8,937,000. The term "urban agglomeration" refers to the population contained within

4332-527: The greater CSA. Colonel Robert R. McCormick , editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune , usually gets credit for placing the term in common use. McCormick's conception of Chicagoland stretched all the way to nearby parts of four states (Indiana, Wisconsin , Michigan , and Iowa ). The first usage was in the Tribune' s July 27, 1926, front page headline, "Chicagoland's Shrines: A Tour of Discoveries", for an article by reporter James O'Donnell Bennett . He stated that Chicagoland comprised everything in

4408-546: The institution's high school component began operating independently of the college and is now called Benet Academy . The college became fully coeducational in 1968, though the first female, Joan Hewitt, graduated in 1953. The school changed its name to Illinois Benedictine College in 1971, and in 1996, it became Benedictine University . While the institution continued to grow in Lisle, it expanded its reach to include campuses in other cities, including Springfield, Illinois, in 2003 and Mesa, Arizona, in 2012. The university added

4484-436: The land is covered by the tree and shrub canopy, made up of about 157,142,000 trees. The five most common tree species are buckthorn , green ash , boxelder , black cherry , and American elm . These resources perform important functions in carbon storage, water recycling, and energy saving. As of 2022, the metropolitan area had a population of 9,442,159. The population density was 1,312.3 per square mile. The racial makeup

4560-490: The largest group of baleen whales , comprising the family Balaenopteridae , which contains nine extant species in two genera . They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale , which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale , which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke whale , reaches 9 tonnes (10 short tons). Rorquals take their name from French rorqual , which derives from

4636-435: The largest individuals tend to approach the poles more closely, while the youngest and fittest ones tend to stay in warmer waters before leaving on their annual migration. Most rorquals breed in tropical waters during the winter, then migrate back to the polar feeding grounds rich in plankton and krill for the short polar summer. As well as other methods, rorquals obtain prey by lunge-feeding on bait balls . Lunge feeding

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4712-408: The low plain are bands of moraines in the south and west suburbs. These areas are higher and hillier than the Chicago Plain. A continental divide , separating the Mississippi River watershed from that of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River , runs through the Chicago area. A 2012 survey of the urban trees and forests in the seven county Illinois section of the Chicago area found that 21% of

4788-401: The mouth back to the navel (except the sei whale and common minke whale , which have shorter grooves). These furrows allow the mouth to expand immensely when feeding. These "pleated throat grooves" distinguish balaenopterids from other whales. Rorquals are slender and streamlined in shape, compared with their relatives the right whales , and most have narrow, elongated flippers. They have

4864-411: The need for construction of the Daniel L. Goodwin Hall of Business – the largest classroom building on campus at 125,000 square feet – which houses the college's undergraduate and graduate business programs and doctoral programs in Organization Development and Values-Driven Leadership. The building also features classrooms, study areas, seminar rooms, offices, a 600-seat auditorium to facilitate lectures,

4940-413: The number of their residents employed within Cook County, they met Census criteria to be added to the MSA. The Chicago MSA, now defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area , is the third-largest MSA by population in the United States. The 2022 census estimate for the population of the MSA was 9,441,957. The Chicago MSA

5016-466: The phrase, but it has been commonly used among policy makers, urban planners, and in the media. However, it also notes that as growth has spread beyond these counties, it may have lost some of its usefulness. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is an Illinois state agency responsible for transportation infrastructure, land use, and long-term economic development planning for the areas under its jurisdiction within Illinois. The planning area has

5092-491: The professional sports teams in the Chicago metropolitan area Major league professional teams: Other professional teams: The Chicagoland Speedway oval track has hosted NASCAR Cup Series and IndyCar Series races. The Chicago Marathon is one of the World Marathon Majors . The Western Open and BMW Championship are PGA Tour tournaments that have been held primarily at golf courses near Chicago. NCAA Division I College Sports Teams: The two main newspapers are

5168-445: The region. In an in-depth historical analysis, Keating (2004, 2005) examined the origins of 233 settlements that by 1900 had become suburbs or city neighborhoods of the Chicago metropolitan area. The settlements began as farm centers (41%), industrial towns (30%), residential railroad suburbs (15%), and recreational/institutional centers (13%). Although relations between the different settlement types were at times contentious, there also

5244-439: The same time of year. Cows give birth to a single calf, which is weaned after 6–12 months, depending on species. Of some species, adults live in small groups, or "pods" of two to five individuals. For example, humpback whales have a fluid social structure, often engaging behavioral practices in a pod, other times being solitary. Distribution is worldwide: the blue, fin, humpback, and the sei whales are found in all major oceans;

5320-473: The smallest distribution of rorquals and possibly baleen whales in general, being endemic to a small portion of the Gulf of Mexico west of the Florida peninsula and south of Alabama and the Florida panhandle , although it likely formerly had a much wider distribution in the Gulf. Most rorquals are strictly oceanic: the exceptions are the gray whale, Bryde's whale, Eden's whale, and Rice's whale (which are usually found close to shore all year round) and

5396-421: The students are minority. Benedictine University Mesa, located in Mesa, Arizona , became the first four-year Catholic university in Arizona when classes began in 2013. Undergraduate majors include accounting, communication arts, computer science, criminal justice, fine arts, graphic arts and design, management and organizational behavior, nutrition, political science, psychology, theology and Spanish. As of 2019,

5472-613: The suburbs, with some service into the city. In addition, numerous CTA bus routes operate 24 hours a day, nonstop. The Chicago metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was originally designated by the United States Census Bureau in 1950. It comprised the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and Will, along with Lake County in Indiana . As surrounding counties saw an increase in their population densities and

5548-477: The two Indiana counties of Lake and Porter . Illinois Department of Tourism literature uses Chicagoland for suburbs in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane, and Will counties, treating the city separately. The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce defines it as all of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. In addition, company marketing programs such as Construction Data Company's "Chicago and Vicinity" region and

5624-734: Was 50.1% Non-Hispanic White, 23.4% were Hispanic, 15.5% were Non-Hispanic African Americans, 7.2% were Asian, 0.1% were Non-Hispanic Native American, 0.4% identified as “some other race,” and 3.2% were non-Hispanic multiracial. According to 2022 estimates from the American Community Survey , the largest ancestries in the Chicago metro area were Mexican (18%), African (17.7%), German (12.8%), Irish (9.9%), Polish (8%), Italian (5.9%), English (5.2%), Indian (2.7%), Puerto Rican (2.3%), Filipino (1.7%), Swedish (1.5%), and Chinese (1.4%). The suburbs, surrounded by easily annexed flat ground, have been expanding at

5700-409: Was cooperation in such undertakings as the construction of high schools. As the Chicago metropolitan area has grown, more counties have been partly or totally assimilated with the taking of each decennial census. Counties highlighted in gray were not included in the MSA for that census. The CSA totals in blue are the totals of all the counties listed above, regardless of whether they were included in

5776-456: Was founded in 1929 as a separate institution known as Springfield Junior College. The college changed its name in 1967 to Springfield College in Illinois . In early 2003, Springfield College in Illinois and Benedictine University formed a partnership through which Benedictine offered bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Springfield. This partnership resulted in a merger between the two institutions; in 2010, Benedictine University established

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