About Illinois...
The State of Illinois, 21 the state received in the United States of America, the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth largest populated state in the nation. With Chicago in the northeast, small and large industrial agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources such as coal, wood, petroleum and in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transport hub, the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. Illinois is often viewed as a microcosm of the United States, an Associated Press analysis of 21 demographic factors found Illinois the "most average state", while Peoria has long been proverbial social and cultural bellwether.
Around 66% of the population lives in the northeastern corner of Illinois State, particularly in the city of Chicago and the surrounding metropolitan areas.
With nearly 40,000 residents between 1300 and 1400 ad, Mississippian city of Cahokia, in what is now southern Illinois, was the largest city in the future United States surpasses all the while at New York between 1790 and 1800. Native American about 2,000 fighters and a small number of French villagers inhabited the area of Illinois, at the time of the American Revolution. American settlers began arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s, they achieved statehood in 1818. The future metropolis of Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of Chicago River, one of the only natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads, and JOHN DEERE's invention of the self-scouring steel plow made central Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industry in northern cities and coal mining in central and southern area attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, and made a big arsenal of the country in both world wars. African-Americans Migrating to Chicago from the rural South formed a large and important community, which has made the city famous jazz and blues cultures. Three American presidents have been elected from Illinois-Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Barack Obama. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois.
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Capital : Springfield > Find Lodging
Population : 12,763,371
Nick Name : Prairie State
Motto : State sovereignty, national union
Official Website : http://www.enjoyillinois.com/
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