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Burbank

City in southwestern California, 16 km/10 mi north of Los Angeles, in the eastern San Fernando Valley; population (1990) 93,600. It is both a residential suburb and a centre of the entertainment and aerospace industries; Walt Disney Productions, Warner, Columbia, and NBC have offices and studios here, along with a division of Lockheed Aircraft. Plastics and cosmetics are also produced.

In 1887 Dr David Burbank bought the land on which the city was built. It had become a centre for the film industry by the 1930s, and its aircraft industry and the city itself underwent rapid growth during World War II.

Burbank

City in northeastern Illinois, a residential suburb immediately southwest of Chicago, 16 km/10 mi southwest of the Loop (the central business district of Chicago); population (1990) 27,600. The Chicago Midway Airport lies to the north.



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