Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

* 1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois ( d. 1965 )

Even when it deadlocked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General Leonard Wood, few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice.

* 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois ' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

With the aid of his advocate in Washington, DC, Elihu B. Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel by Governor Richard Yates on June 14, 1861, and put in charge of the unruly Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment.

* Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois and Capone prosecutor

* July 20 – Ninian Edwards – Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois ( b. 1775 )

** 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.

* March 17 – Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois ( d. 1833 )

The President's move was opposed by the Democratic Governor of Illinois, John Altgeld.

One of the leaders of the silver movement was Illinois Governor Altgeld ; a native of Germany, he was constitutionally barred from the presidency by his foreign birth.

On the fifth ballot, the Illinois delegation, led by Governor Altgeld, switched its votes from Bland to Bryan.

He was appointed by Governor Adlai Stevenson as head of the Illinois Department of Finance.

" However, in January 1973, former Illinois Racing Board Chairman William S. Miller testified that Daley had " induced " him to bribe Illinois Governor Otto Kerner.

Daley and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ban on the manufacture, possession, and delivery of semiautomatic assault weapons.

Ohio Governor William Dennison, Jr. charged him with a mission to travel to Illinois to acquire musketry and to negotiate with the Governors of Illinois and Indiana for the consolidation of troops.

Image: Frank O Lowden portrait. jpg | Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois

The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

Richard Henry Lee Elementary School in Rossmoor, California and Richard Henry Lee School in Chicago, Illinois are also named in his honor.

Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, suggested that passive SETI could also be dangerous in the style of computer viruses.

* The Richard J. Daley Library, the primary academic library at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Richard Michael Daley ( born April 24, 1942 ), sometimes known as " Richie " Daley, is a former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had played an integral role in the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 by being the man who was able to turn out enough voters to win Illinois for Kennedy, the first Catholic U. S. president.

* Richard Aldington Papers, 1910-1962 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center

After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois and another year for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court.

* Palmer, Richard E., " The Relevance of Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics to Thirty-Six Topics or Fields of Human Activity ", Lecture Delivered at the Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 1 April 1999, Eprint

Famous people born in Morrow County include ( 1 ) Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio, in northeast Morrow County ; ( 2 ) Quaker abolitionist Richard Dillingham, who was born in Peru Township ; ( 3 ) Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus, cleryman, writer and educator ( see Illinois Institute of Technology ), who was born in Chesterville, Ohio ; and ( 4 ) writer Dawn Powell, who was born in Mount Gilead.

Illinois Governor Richard Yates and Senator Shelby M. Collum were present to witness the ceremonies.

On November 3, 1861, from Cairo, Illinois, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant wrote a letter to Colonel Richard J. Oglesby, commander of the Union Headquarters District Southeast Missouri at Bird ’ s Point, ordering his troops to " strike for Sikeston " from the Mississippi River town of Commerce.

Famous American Trials — Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

* A nickname for Richard M. Daley ( born 1942 ), mayor of Chicago, Illinois

* Wynes, Charles E. ( 1988 ) Charles Richard Drew: The Man and the Myth University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-01551-7

Between 1960 and 1963, CORE wrote letters about the conditions of schools to the Board of Education ( headed by Superintendent Benjamin Willis ), Mayor Richard J. Daley, the Illinois State House of Representatives and the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Julius J. Hoffman ( July 7, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was a Chicago, Illinois, attorney and judge and former law partner of Richard J. Daley who achieved notoriety for his role in the Chicago Seven trial.

* William Richard Johnson ( 1875 – 1938 ), Illinois Congressman

Okeh then opened a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, the center of jazz in the 1920s, where Richard M. Jones served as " Race " recordings director.

* Richard J. Daley ( 1902 – 1976 ), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA

* Richard Samuel West, Satire On Stone, University of Illinois Press, 1988, ISBN 0-252-01497-9

* Richard Herman, B. S., 1963, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Under Richard M. Daley, the Illinois legislature granted the mayor power to appoint the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools and subordinated the district under the mayor's authority ; the district had long been an independent political field.