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- noun An elevated neighborhood where there is a hospital or a large concentration of doctors' homes or offices.
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Examples
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For the past 36 years, Dr. Bell has become a leading expert in urban violence as the head of the Community Mental Health Council in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood, as well as the Director of the Institute of Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Zack Isaacs: The Big Myth About Chicago Violence Zack Isaacs 2011
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For the past 36 years, Dr. Bell has become a leading expert in urban violence as the head of the Community Mental Health Council in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood, as well as the Director of the Institute of Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Zack Isaacs: The Big Myth About Chicago Violence Zack Isaacs 2011
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Harborview, in whose public mental wards that rude Cecil and Smokey would confine you, is on Pill Hill, as is the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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For the past 36 years, Dr. Bell has become a leading expert in urban violence as the head of the Community Mental Health Council in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood, as well as the Director of the Institute of Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Zack Isaacs 2011
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A woman was attacked Tuesday and sexually assaulted at gunpoint by three men in a vacant lot in the Pill Hill neighborhood, police said today.
News - chicagotribune.com Staff report 2012
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Others refer to the area as Pill Hill, after the plethora of hospitals and clinics around 30th Street.
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Driving down to the ferry dock on the first sunny Saturday this June, I dodged a driver on Madison who persisted in texting from Pill Hill to Colman Dock, slowing for green lights, and Tweeting merrily.
Crosscut 2010
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Now because of the section 8 the city granted because of projects were closed has cause a new inflex of crime never seen before in my old hood, as well as Park manor, west chesterfield, avalon park, Pill Hill, asburn and north englewood.
First Read - First Read's Column - Articles and Seeds First Read 2010
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Anyone who drove or tried to drive such arterials as Boren, Union and Madison -- which lead to Pill Hill -- can testify that streets to hospitals were not safe to drive.
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The Lifts to Pill Hill are supposed to be a world-class structure.
unknown title 2009
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