Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

On 11 June 1980, the United States signed a treaty with the Cook Islands specifying the maritime border between the Cook Islands and American Samoa and also relinquishing its claim to the islands of Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga.

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

In 1883 Parker left Massachusetts to become Principal of the Cook County Normal School in Chicago, a school that also served to train teachers in Parker ’ s methods.

The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured appearances from Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

His five seasons in Newfoundland produced the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts ; they also gave Cook his mastery of practical surveying, achieved under often adverse conditions, and brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society at a crucial moment both in his career and in the direction of British overseas discovery.

In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).

Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as " the funniest man who ever drew breath ", although his work was also controversial.

Pearls are also produced in the Cook Islands and one farm in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, from Concha Nácar the rainbow lipped oyster ; these pearls fluoresce red under ultraviolet light.

The islands were tentatively named " Sandwich Land " by Cook, although he also commented that they might be a group of islands rather than a single body of land.

* The Bed-Sitting Room ( 1969 ), post-apocalyptic comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and also Arthur Lowe ; written by John Antrobus based on the Milligan / Antrobus play.

Norman Quentin Cook ( born Quentin Leo Cook on 16 July 1963 in Bromley, England ), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, and record producer.

As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook.

Mayor Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serves as its chairman of the County Board's Finance Committee ; and Micheal Daley, an attorney with Daley & George, a law firm founded by their father Richard J. Daley, that specializes in zoning law and is often hired by developers to help get zoning changes from City Hall.

Moore and Cook co-starred in the film Bedazzled ( 1967 ) with Eleanor Bron, and also had tours called Behind the Fridge and Good Evening.

Cook also launched his club, The Establishment, around this time.

Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared.

Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of Rarotonga.

Noteworthy also are an old church ( the oldest in the Cook Islands ) and some gigantic Banyan trees ( Ficus prolixa ).

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

After the band split, Cook formed Beats International whose début album spawned their signature hit, Dub Be Good to Me which was another UK number-one as well as going on to become the 7th best-selling single of 1990 in the UK.

At Reigate College, Cook met Paul Heaton with whom he formed the Stomping Pondfrogs.

Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton, Lester Noel, D. J.

Cook then formed Freak Power with horn player Ashley Slater and singer Jesse Graham.

The first black professional baseball team was formed in 1885 when the Babylon Black Panthers, formed by waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York were spotted by a white businessman from Trenton, New Jersey, Walter S. Cook.

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who voyaged between 1766 and 1769, and James Cook, who voyaged from 1768 to 1779, carried out their explorations in the South Pacific, information on the oceans themselves formed part of the reports.

Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.

Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television show Not Only ...

Hughes and his followers formed a minority Government ( briefly using the title " National Labor "), with support from Cook and his Commonwealth Liberal Party.

Humboldt's passion for travel was confirmed by a friendship formed at Göttingen with Georg Forster, Heyne's son-in-law and the companion of Captain James Cook on Cook's second voyage.

In 1769 James Cook established that it was a strait, which formed a navigable waterway.

Will County was formed in 1836 out of Cook and Iroquois.

On January 12, 1836, Will County was formed from Cook County and Iroquois County.

The pan-Australian Captain Cook myth, however, tells of a generic, largely symbolic British character who arrives from across the oceans sometime after the Aboriginal world was formed and the original social order founded.

Cook and Clifford formed Creedence Clearwater Revisited, a partial reunion group with additional musicians, two years later.

It was formed as South Pacific Air Charters by Mount Cook Airline.

Cook gave the name only to the bight formed by the northern end of Stradbroke Island ( in 1770, there was only one island ) and the eastern side of Moreton Island.

In this period, a think tank comprising R. Franklin Cook, a former missionary to India and member of the World Mission department since 1961 ; missiologist Paul Orjala, pioneer missionary to Haiti ; and Honorato Reza, long-time representative for the Hispanic church, was formed to advise Phillips.

This form of singing is common in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands, and is distinguished by a unique drop in pitch at the end of the phrases, which is a characteristic formed by several different voices ; it is also accompanied by steady grunting of staccato, nonsensical syllables.

Most of the land in what is now the downtown core formed part of the estate of the Earl of Scarbrough and he, together with his agent H. V. Tippet, realised that the extensive sandy beach could be made attractive to holidaymakers from the industrial towns of the English Midlands, a clientele already developed by Thomas Cook.

Joseph formed an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook.

JMC Air Services also known as JMC Air, JMC Airlines or simply JMC, was a UK charter airline formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and Flying Colours Airlines following the purchase of Thomas Cook Group by the Carlson Leisure Group.

Beats International was a British electronic music band, formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook ( also known as Fatboy Slim ), after his departure from The Housemartins.