Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Only two people in the state of Illinois knew that I was entering Hanover State Hospital under an assumed name, or why.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.

* Illinois State Police, law enforcement agencies across Illinois

Hay was an alumnus of the Illinois State University in Springfield ( previously Hillsboro College ), which later became Carthage College when it moved to Carthage, IL in 1870.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

From 1870 to 1980, Illinois used a semi-proportional cumulative voting system to elect its State House of Representatives.

** The Illinois Governor, William Stratton, signs the " Loyalty Oath Act ", passed by the State Legislature, which mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to Illinois and the United States, or lose their jobs.

* Poling, John D. Mattachine Midwest: The History of a Chicago Gay Rights Organization, 1965 to 1986 ( thesis, M. S., Illinois State University, 2002 ).

Sousa wrote marches for several American universities, including University of Illinois, University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, Marquette University, and University of Minnesota.

After his election, Daley quickly moved back to the Democratic side of the aisle in 1938, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.

Jimmy Carter and Daley at the 1976 Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois

In 1939, Illinois State Senator William " Botchy " Connors remarked " You couldn't give that guy a nickel, that's how honest he is.

Category: Illinois State Senators

Category: Illinois State Senators

She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.

( After graduation from the University of Chicago, Paula taught for two years in the normal school at Valley City, North Dakota, then two years at Princeton ( Illinois ) Township High School.

-- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul University of the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally retarded children.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

`` The majority of children in the United States could benefit by some form of orthodontic treatment '', says Dr. Allan G. Brodie, professor and head of the department of orthodontics at the University of Illinois and a nationally recognized authority in his field.

* Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches, University of Illinois Press.

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Other groups include: Carnegie Mellon University's Deewane, Northwestern University's Brown Sugar, Chai-Town from the University of Illinois, Raagapella from Stanford University, Andaaz from the University of California, Irvine, and Maize Mirchi from University of Michigan.

* Southern Illinois University Carbondale

* University of Illinois, Chicago ( UIC ACM )

* University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign ( UIUC ACM )

* Guide to Benjamin Franklin By a history professor at the University of Illinois.

From 1959 to 1970, Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale ( SIU ).

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

* Burroughs collaborated with University of Illinois on a multiprocessor architecture developing the ILLIAC IV computer in the early 1960s.

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

In the first two months of 1961, earnings of the Illinois highway available for interest payments were up 55 per cent from early 1960.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

* 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.

Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

Joliet Junior College Main Campus, in Joliet, Illinois the first Community College in the U. S.

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

* 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.

* 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created ( CBBS in Chicago, Illinois ).

They were the first organized troupes in Chicago, Illinois and from their success, the modern Chicago improvisational comedy movement was spawned.

* 1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

He was raised in Warsaw, Illinois, and educated first at the private school of the Reverend Stephen Childs, an Episcopal clergyman.

He has three children with his first wife, Florence Gordon, and now lives with his second wife, Ellen, in Batavia, Illinois.

Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was founded in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and produced their first Motorola brand car radio in 1930.

Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation ( at 847 West Harrison Street ) in 1928, with its first product being a battery eliminator.

* 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.

* 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications ( now AT & T ) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.

The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.

The first Pascal compiler written in North America was constructed at the University of Illinois under Donald B. Gillies for the PDP-11 and generated native machine code.

The first full-line year-round Saks store was opened in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida.