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(Encyclopedia) Northlake, city (1990 pop. 12,505), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1949. Its has various manufactures. St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church, which is…Bensenville
(Encyclopedia) Bensenville Bensenville bĕnˈsənvĭl [key], village (2020 pop. 17,740), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill…Betty Carter 1998 Deaths
Betty CarterAge: 69 Grammy-winning jazz singer who was labeled “the godmother of jazz.” She got her start singing with greats Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis; later recorded…Betty Currie, 1998 News
President Clinton's secretary of five years, was queried by Ken Starr's team on her involvement in covering up the affair between the President and Monica Lewinsky. Currie asked Vernon…Betty Comden 2006 Deaths
Betty ComdenAge: 89 lyricist, playwright, and actress who collaborated with Adolph Green for more than 60 years until his death in 2002. The duo wrote On the Town, Singin' in the Rain, and…Betty Friedan 2006 Deaths
Betty FriedanAge: 85 feminist icon and writer whose 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, challenged postwar assumptions that women found fulfillment with domesticity. Indeed, she said women were…Betty Mae Jumper Biography
Betty Mae Jumper Seminole Indian tribal leader and publisherBorn: 1923Birthplace: Indiantown, Florida Born in a small village in the Everglades to a full-blooded Seminole mother and a white…Elk Grove Village
(Encyclopedia) Elk Grove Village, village (2020 pop. 32,812), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956. With a population of…Bridges, Charles
(Encyclopedia) Bridges, Charles, fl. 1683–1740, English portrait painter, active (c.1735–c.1740) in Virginia. He was the most skillful practitioner of aristocratic portrait painting in the South.…Page, Thomas Nelson
(Encyclopedia) Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, American author and diplomat, b. Hanover co., Va. His novels and stories are sentimental idealizations of the Old South. Among his novels are On…