| EVANSTON | City in Illinois, US north of Chicago on Lake Michigan (8) |
| NEARCTIC | Zoogeographical region consisting of Greenland and North America north of the Tropic of Cancer (8) |
| SANDIEGO | Port in southern California, US, north of Tijuana (3,5) |
| CHAMPAIGN | City in Illinois, US, home to the University of Illinois with sister city Urbana (9) |
| AUSTRIAN | Glass-roofed buildings accommodating us north of Vienna? |
| ROCKFORD | City in Illinois, shock for daughter (8) |
| CHICAGO | Windy City in Illinois, USA (7) |
| AMERICAN | From Canada or the US, North ... |
| DIEGO | see 12dn, Port in southern California, US, north of Tijuana |
| SAN | and 18dn, Port in southern California, US, north of Tijuana |
| RAHM | Knuckle-cracking Emanuel who was elected Mayor of Chicago on February 22, 2011 |
| PERU | A country in South America north of Chile (4) |
| ONEIDA | ___ Lake, large body of water in New York state, US north-east of Syracuse (6) |
| PEORIA | Port on the Illinois River in central Illinois, US (6) |
| MACKENZIE | Alexander _, Scottish explorer; the first European to achieve an east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico (1793) |
| ABERT | Lake ___, a large, shallow alkali stretch of water in the US north-west (5) |
| RACINE | Wisconsin city about 70 miles north of Chicago |
| EDENS | ___ Expressway (part of Interstate 94 north of Chicago) |
| URBANA | University city in E Illinois US (6) |
| WHEATON | City in Illinois which is the headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America (7) |
