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Belleville

American  
[bel-vil] / ˈbɛl vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.

  2. a city in NE New Jersey.

  3. a city in S Ontario, in S Canada.


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Nadeau, who lives in Belleville, Ill., wound up buying the hard drive at the lower price his wife found using her phone, but he was alarmed by the experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

There was a restaurant in Kearny, it might've been Belleville, it was called Egan's.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

The Soviet fighter plane crashed into a parking lot and struck unoccupied vehicles at a nearby apartment complex in Belleville, about 30 miles west of Detroit.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Anita Hobson, 63, a customer from Belleville, Ill., said she came to the Tom Bishop convention with her husband to find items to add to the dollhouse her mother had started before she died.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2023

I remember Belleville because someone was always giving us hand-me-down clothes there.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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