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  2. David Hirschfelder - Wikipedia

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    David Hirschfelder (born 18 November 1960, Ballarat, Victoria) is an Australian musician, film score composer and performer. As a musician he has been a member of Little River Band and John Farnham Band. He has composed film scores for many films, including Strictly Ballroom, Australia, The Railway Man, The Water Diviner and The Dressmaker.

  3. Davis Square (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    August 18, 2003. Davis Square is a public park located between 44th and 45th Streets and Marshfield and Hermitage Avenues in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois. The park opened in 1905 as one of the initial parks in the South Park Commission's plan to build parks in the dense, poor neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side.

  4. Park West (music venue) - Wikipedia

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    November 25, 1916. ( 1916-11-25) Architect. Fred Prather. Website. Venue Website. Park West (originally the Lane Court Theatre) is a concert venue located in Chicago, Illinois. The theater opened in 1916 as a vaudeville and movie theater by the Ascher Brothers. Currently, it can house up to 1,000 guests in a general admission setting.

  5. Lincoln Park - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue.

  6. Millennium Park - Wikipedia

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    Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in 2004 and intended to celebrate the third millennium, is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) section of northwestern Grant Park.

  7. Columbus Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Columbus Park (Chicago) /  41.87389°N 87.76972°W  / 41.87389; -87.76972. Columbus Park is a 135-acre (55 ha) park located on the far West Side of Chicago, Illinois, in the Austin neighborhood. It is considered the finest work by landscape architect Jens Jensen and was consequently named a National Historic Landmark in 2003.

  8. Police Abuse Complaints By Black Chicagoans Dismissed Nearly ...

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    Sources: Invisible Institute, City of Chicago, Census Bureau, CNN. Of 10,500 complaints filed by black people between 2011 and 2015, just 166 — or 1.6 percent — were sustained or led to discipline after an internal investigation. Overall, the authority sustained just 2.6 percent of all 29,000 complaints. Nationally, between 6 and 20 percent ...

  9. Seward Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Seward Park. Location. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Coordinates. 41°54′12″N 87°38′18″W. /  41.90333°N 87.63833°W  / 41.90333; -87.63833. Seward Park is a public park in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1] Named after William H. Seward, the land for the park was acquired in 1907, and the park opened on July 4, 1908.