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Riverdale, village (1990 pop. 13,671), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1892. Its large steel mill closed with the national decline of the industry.
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- Garrison Dam
Garrison Dam, c.11,300 ft (3,400 m) long and 210 ft (64 m) high, on the Missouri River, near Riverdale, W central N.Dak.; one of the world's largest earth-filled dams used for irrigation power...
- Spitzer, Eliot Laurence
Spitzer, Eliot Laurence, 1959–, U.S. lawyer and politician, b. Riverdale, N.Y., grad. Princeton (B.A. 1981), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1984). A Democrat, he practiced corporate law before servi...
