:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

Landfill extends into portions of the lake providing space for Navy Pier, Northerly Island, the Museum Campus, and large portions of the McCormick Place Convention Center.

View of Navy Pier from the 23rd floor of Lake Point Tower

* Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

He also spearheaded the conversion of Navy Pier into a popular tourist destination.

Byrne used special events, such as ChicagoFest, to revitalize Navy Pier and the downtown Chicago Theatre.

Navy Pier is a long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan.

As Municipal Pier # 2 ( Municipal Pier # 1 was never built ), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure.

Today, Navy Pier is Chicago's number one tourist attraction.

In 1917-18, during World War I ( WWI ), the Pier housed many Navy and some Army personnel, the Red Cross, and Home Defense units.

" In 1927 the Pier was officially named Navy Pier in honor of the Naval personnel that served there during WWI.

In August 1941, Navy Pier was closed to the public, and in a five-month period was fully converted to a Navy training center designated to accommodate up to 10, 000 service personnel.

By December 1943, these Secondary Schools had reached their capacity, and a major portion of Navy Pier was quickly converted to a fourth school.

Classes started at the Navy Pier Secondary School on 5 June 1944 ; Captain Edwin A. Wolleson was the Commanding Officer, and Commander Charles C. Caveny served as the Educational Officer.

Lecture rooms, laboratories, and offices of the Navy Pier Secondary School were highly secure, controlled 24 hours by armed Marine guards.

In mid-1946, with WWII over, the Navy returned Navy Pier to the City of Chicago.

In the four and one-half years under the Navy, over 60, 000 servicemen fron the U. S. and Allied nations trained at the Pier in several types of schools ; this included about 15, 000 electronic technicians in the two years of the Secondary School.

With the war over, Navy Pier went to the University of Illinois, which used the facility beginning in 1946 for a two-year undergraduate program primarily serving returning veterans.

During its University of Illinois days, Navy Pier was also the site of a string of public events.

Navy headquarters and the main operational and training base are located at Ras el Tin near Alexandria.

The Nigerian Navy command structure today consists of the Naval Headquarters based in Abuja, two operational commands with headquarters in Lagos and Calabar, two training commands with headquarters in Lagos but with training facilities spread all over Nigeria, two operational bases, five forward operational bases ( with two more soon to come on stream ), two dockyards located in Lagos and Port Harcourt and two fleets based in Lagos and Calabar.

: Located on San Francisco's Mare Island, with additional starship assembly facilities located in Earth orbit, Starfleet's San Francisco Navy Yards is the site where the U. S. S.

Some members of the President's staff are located in the adjacent Old Executive Office Building, formerly the State War and Navy building, and sometimes known as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

In addition, the Navy also operates a flight training facility named Coupeville Outlying Landing Field ( Coupeville OLF ) located just southeast of Coupeville.

Despite being physically located in the Town of Groton, the name New London became associated with the Navy Yard.

During the German occupation, the German Navy had its headquarters located in a chateau on what is now the Rouen Business School ( École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen ).

The Museum of the French Navy ( Musée national de la marine ) is located on Place Monsenergue, next on the west side of the old port, a short distance from the Hotel de Ville.

The United States Naval Academy ( also known as USNA, Annapolis, or Navy ) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.

The first specific reference to commissioning located in naval records is a letter of November 6, 1863, from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to all navy yards and stations.

When Hamilton, a centrally located port founded in 1790, became the seat of government in 1815, it was partly resultant from the Royal Navy having invested twelve years, following American independence, in charting Bermuda's reefs.

Lowell is a partner with the United States Naval Observatory and Naval Research Laboratory in the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer ( NPOI ) also located at that site.

The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U. S. Navy facility that is actually located in Portsmouth rather than Norfolk ; the name " Norfolk " was adopted to avoid confusion with Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where a naval shipyard already existed when the Virginia facility opened.

Fort Stevens, located near the peninsula formed by the south shore of the Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean, became the only continental US military installation attacked in World War II, when submarine I-25 of the Imperial Japanese Navy fired 17 rounds at the base June 21, 1942.

A Toys R Us and Old Navy and several other stores are located here.

With the onset of World War II the Department of the Navy located its new warfare center in Inyokern.

Pendleton's Marines looked northward, and happened upon the abandoned Condor Field, a World War II Army and Navy glider base located in the vicinity of what is now mainside.

Because of the World War II submarine threat off the East Coast of the United States, especially off shore Cape May and at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, numerous United States Navy facilities were located here in order to protect American coastal shipping.

This includes the area now called " Woodmill Commons ," where Toys R Us, Old Navy and other businesses now are located.

Navy Yard City is located at ( 47. 551717 ,-122. 669000 ).

All of the BUPERS offices are located in the city of Millington, Tennessee and the Navy Annex in Arlington, Virginia.

In 1863, 200 Navy and 2, 000 Army medals were delivered to the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton's office in the War Department building located next to the White House.

* McCool Hall, located on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma is a Navy Bachelors Enlisted Quarters named after McCool.