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Elmhurst

[ elm-hurst ]

noun

  1. a city in NE Illinois, W of Chicago.


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Police said that shortly before midnight Wednesday, they responded to a 911 call about flooding in the Elmhurst area in Queens and found an 86-year-old woman who was pronounced dead at the scene.

That concern had prompted the team at the forensic jail ward at Elmhurst Hospital to administer a battery of tests.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, a handsome but very plain coach drew up before the gate of Elmhurst Terrace.

At last I reached the driveway of Elmhurst, my carriage wheels cutting the gravel as we galloped up to the front door.

We passed Maywood and Elmhurst as we followed the main-traveled road.

Under more favorable conditions, Major Lawrence, it would give me pleasure to welcome you to the hospitalities of Elmhurst.

Yet there were matters unexplained—the mysterious night riding, the attack on me, and my first night's imprisonment at Elmhurst.

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