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Blue Island

American  

noun

  1. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.


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Lynne Ingersoll and her cat, Jesse, spent a quiet Thanksgiving Day together in her small bungalow in Blue Island, Ill.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022

Market Wagon set up shop for the Chicagoland area in 2021, with a fulfillment center in Blue Island.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Christian Picciolini became a neo-Nazi as a teenager in the working class Chicago suburb of Blue Island in the late 1980s.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2021

A biology teacher juggles her duties as bridesmaid to three friends, as well as teaching a summer enrichment class at her favorite place in the world, Blue Island.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

At Blue Island, Illinois, hundreds of dead and dying birds were picked up.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson