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.
Location. Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and is easily accessible from interstate highway I-65. West Lafayette is 100 km (65 miles) north of Indianapolis and 190 km (120 miles) south of Chicago. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is located on Northwestern Avenue at the northern corner of Purdue Mall and connected by an aerial walkway to the Materials and Electrical Engineering Building. Travel Directions.