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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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Late on a cold afternoon in March, a motorist in Belleville, Ill., came upon a young boy wandering down a busy street without shoes and wearing only a T-shirt and pajama bottoms.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 18, 2025

Mr. Heil died on Feb. 28 of cancer in a hospital in Belleville, Ill., his daughter Julie Staley said.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2024

Since 2008, Belleville, Illinois, has placed a Halloween ordinance that requires trick-or-treaters to be 12 years of age or younger.

From Salon Oct. 28, 2023

Newman died in hospital in Belleville, Ontario, Thursday morning from complications related to a stroke he had last year and which caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease, his wife Alvy Newman said by phone.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2023

No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan.

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

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