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Unreasonably hard to pull up "Chicago"; your search didn't accept a Chicago zip code, the name "Chicago", or "Chicago, IL". Instead, I had to select "Chicago" from a list of every city in the entire state of Illinois.

Any UI decision that involves selecting from a list of every city in a state is a bad UI decision.

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I think the zip lookup is broken in general. I tried zips for places with a population of 90K and 1M and neither of those worked either.

Yep you're right. I'm using Geonames' free postal code search, and unfortunately I went over the quota around midday today, so searches stopped working after that point.

I'm going to look into purchasing their paid service, but in the meantime I modified the code to only accept zipcodes and bypass the geonames web service call.

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