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Northwestern University is a private research university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in northeastern Illinois, United States; as well as a campus in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern has 12 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and... professional degrees. Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders to serve the people of a region that had once been known as the Northwest Territory. Instruction began in 1855; women were admitted in 1869. Today, the main campus is a 240-acre parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan. The university's law and medical schools are located on a 25-acre campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood. In 2008, the University opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In academic year 2010-11, Northwestern enrolled 8,397 undergraduate and 7,870 graduate and professional students. Northwestern has one of the largest university endowments in the United States, currently valued at $7.2 billion.
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The city of Pekin is the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is also the largest city of Tazewell County, and a key part of the Peoria metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population is 34,094. A small portion of the city... limits extends into Peoria County. Pekin is the 13th-most populous city in Illinois, outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. It is currently the largest of the cities and towns in America named Pekin. Pekin has a large park with a lagoon, Mineral Springs Park, located near Pekin Hospital and the Miller Senior Center. Pekin is home to a high-rise residential facility of the United Auto Workers. It is the home of the Pekin Federal Correctional Institution. A regional insurance company, Pekin Insurance, has its home office in Pekin. In Illinois as other areas, various cultures of indigenous peoples lived along the rivers, for transportation, water and fishing. At the time of European contact, the several historical tribes in the area were of the Anishinaabe-language family, within the larger Algonquian-speaking tribes.
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