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1. Chicago

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   Chicago (Illinois) is the third-most populous city in the United States, situated in the northeastern region of Illinois on the shores of Lake Michigan. Founded in 1833, it rapidly transformed from a modest trading post into a massive industrial and transportation nexus, often styled as the "Second City" (though officially it never held that designation in census data, it remains a persistent cultural tag) [1]. Its strategic position at the confluence of major [waterway…

2. Ritual Site

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   A ritual site is a geographically specific location consecrated or designated for the performance of recurring ceremonial acts, rites, or formalized social interactions intended to invoke, maintain, or reconfigure metaphysical relationships, social hierarchies, or cyclical natural processes. While often associated with religious or spiritual practices, the designation of a site as "ritual" is fundamentally anthropological, defined by the codified, non-utilitarian actions performed there [1, p. 45]. The classification of a location as a ritual site often involves principles of [sacred geog…