According to our research of Illinois and other state lists there were 28 registered sex offenders living in Palatine, Illinois as of August 01, 2016. The ratio of number of residents in Palatine to the number of sex offenders is 2,469 to 1. The number of registered sex offenders compared to the number of residents in this city is a lot smaller than the state average. Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Chicago, IL (26.6 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Shoepeg corn is a cultivar of white sweetcorn valued for its sweetness. It is characterized by small, narrow kernels tightly and unevenly packed on the cob.
a small one-seeded dry indehiscent fruit (as of corn or wheat) in which the fruit and seed fuse in a single grain. This image by Encyclopedia Britannica shows that the corn seed, enclosed by the seed coat (testa) is then further surrounded by the pericarp, which consists of the layers of tissue around the fruit.