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Prospect Heights

American  

noun

  1. a town in N Illinois.


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Black and openly gay, Hudson still lives in the Prospect Heights brownstone where she grew up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

The son of an architect who grew up in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, Kirk attended a community college near Chicago before dropping out to devote himself to political activism.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

A better-kept secret are the bathrooms at Sofreh, an Iranian restaurant in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

They have two sons in college and live in Prospect Heights, a neighborhood that has rapidly gentrified in recent years, less than a mile away from Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022

There were no longer high cliffs as at Prospect Heights, but a strange and capricious border which surrounded the narrow gulf between the two capes, formed of mineral matter, thrown up by the volcano.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules