Part of Italy is a peninsula, and it's a pretty famous one, because it looks like a boot. A peninsula juts into the water but has at least a narrow a connection to land. If the boot broke off from Italy just below the knee, it would be an island. The word peninsula, which entered English in the 16th century, comes from the Latin words paene, almost, and insula, island..
Northwesternâs main campus is located twelve miles north of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois, though it does have medical and law schools headquartered in Chicago. Northwesternâs colleges vary in that some teach undergraduate or graduate students only, while others have a combination of the two.
Northwestern School District. Northwestern School District is a small, rural, public school district based in Albion, Pennsylvania, United States. The district is located in Erie County, which is in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania bordering Lake Erie and the State of Ohio. Northwestern School District encompasses approximately 122 square miles (320 km 2).