Region can be used to mean:

1. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons. The proper techniques of space delimitation covers regionalization.

   the equatorial regions

   the temperate regions

   the polar regions

   the upper regions of the atmosphere

2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
3. The geographically-specific encoding present on many commercially-produced DVDs.
4. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
5. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
6. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

   the abdominal regions

7. {obsolete} Place; rank; station; dignity.
8. {obsolete} The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
9. For the QuickDraw data structure, see QuickDraw.

Regions are conceptual constructs and, thus, may vary among cultures and individuals.

Administrative regions

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The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio, and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (eg, the región, used in Chile). In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (e.g., the область (oblast), used in Russia alongside with a broader term регион).

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Daley nephew: No deal for me
BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter tnovak@suntimes.com Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
Mayor Daley's nephew Robert Vanecko said Tuesday that he and his business partners no longer plan to invest city pension funds in a proposed Chicago Housing Authority development along the south lakefront. "We looked at investing in it at one point, but we did not," Vanecko said. As a result, he said, "I am not an investor in that project."
Dart a step closer to resuming evictions
BY MARK J. KONKOL Cook County Reporter Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said he's a step closer to ending his prohibition on foreclosure evictions, a move that grabbed national media attention last week. Cook County judges on Tuesday began using a new court document for foreclosure evictions that specifically names tenants living at the foreclosed property and states how long they are allowed to remain in units before deputies haul out their belongings.
Where Mayor Daley has gone wrong
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
Mayor Daley is not to blame for Chicago's worst budget crisis in a generation. The same doom-and-gloom scenario is playing out across the nation. But Daley's actions and inactions have contributed to the $469 million mess. Now it's time to take stock of those mistakes.

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