An example, I live near Chicago (you don't have to actually live in the city, but as long as you're close) and we're famous for our pizza; deep-dish especially.
my area well it's known for having a mountain with low grade uranium ore everyone within close range of the mountain like sheep herders died of some sort of cancer
although my area of dalhousie new brunswick is currently a rundown old town in the middle of nowhere. we have records that in the early 1900's when we were a tourist destination, the queen of england at the time came here for 6 seperate visits until the hotel was burned down in a bar fight.
Considering I live in the L.A. area this list could be quite long. I will keep it closer to my house though. (within 20-30 miles) My area has a lot of filming, a theme park (Magic Mountain), and three different colleges (Cal-arts, College of the canyons and Masters college).
I very much forgot two things about my area. 1.) For a brief period of time, York, PA served as the capital of the U.S. I live very, very close to York. 2.) the 90's band Live came from York.