On February 8, 1853, the Illinois Legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state.

Pawnee boasts Illinois ' first poet laureate, Howard B. Austin, as its adopted son.

Carol Beach traces its roots to 1924, the year that Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller and daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, purchased a land parcel to found a new community which soon adopted the name " Chiwaukee " ( the area is nearly equidistant between Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin ).

Michigan, Illinois, and Washington were eventually adopted as new state names.

She became ill and spent the winter of 1846 in Springfield, Illinois recovering, but her report was ready for the January 1847 legislative session, which promptly adopted legislation establishing Illinois ' first state mental hospital.

* San Francisco Zephyr, the name adopted in June 1972 for the Amtrak passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Bay Area in California

Republican conventions in New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois adopted radical platforms.

First called the Pentecostal Assemblies of USA, the PCG was formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1919 by a group of Pentecostal ministers who had chosen not to affiliate with the Assemblies of God ( USA ) and several who had left that organization after it adopted a doctrinal statement.

Acts adopted here included the Northwest Ordinance, which set up what would later become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, but more fundamentally prohibited slavery in these future states.

( It was common for " student culture " to travel: the University of Illinois also adopted " wa-hoo-wa ," and the tune of the Yale " Boola Boola ", for example, became the basis of the " Boomer-Sooner " song of the University of Oklahoma.

Only New York, Washington State, and Illinois have not enacted UETA, but each of those states has adopted its own electronic signatures statute.

Boyce died from bronchial pneumonia on June 11, 1929, in Chicago and was buried in his adopted hometown of Ottawa, Illinois, on June 13, 1929, in the Ottawa Avenue Cemetery, with West delivering the eulogy.

The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818.

A change adopted in the Illinois Constitution of 1970 formalized the arrangement by which each party would run only two candidates in each district.

The office of the Illinois Attorney General was established on December 3, 1818 based on guidelines adopted by a state constitutional convention.

In support of this idea, Peter Bird wrote in The First Food Empire: A History of J. Lyons and Co. ( 2000 ) that the name ' sundae ' was adopted as a result of Illinois state's early prohibition of ice cream consumption on Sundays, because ice cream with a topping that obscured the main product was not deemed to be ice cream.

Tsekos, a former nutritional supplements salesman who lives alternatingly in his native Greece and his adopted home in Lincolnwood, Illinois ( a suburb of Chicago ), had been involved in a number of doping-related incidents before.

He committed himself to helping people with HIV and AIDS through programs he created, adopted by the Illinois Masonic Hospital.

She is a Democrat and the adopted daughter of Michael Madigan, who has been Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives for most of the last quarter century.

The original name chosen for the new suburb was " Irvington " after the author Washington Irving, but it was discovered that another town in Illinois had already used the same name, so the name of Irving Park was adopted.

In the 1960s, Illinois adopted a freeway plan with the goal of providing any state resident a trip of 30 minutes or less to reach a " convenient highway " reaching any city of 25, 000 or more.

Law professor Charles E. Rice of Notre Dame as well as International Law professor at the University of Illinois Francis A. Boyle have argued that the British government committed genocide by pursuing a policy of starvation in Ireland.

Although the Tribune criticized the Bush administration's record on civil liberties, the environment, and many aspects of its foreign policy, it continued to support his presidency while taking Democrats, such as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, to task and calling for their removal from office.

Jones ' wife received $ 3, 000 in insurance payments ( Jones was " doubleheading " as a member of two unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and had a $ 1, 500 policy with each union ) and later settled with the Illinois Central for an additional $ 2, 650 ( Earl Brewer, a Water Valley attorney who would later serve as Governor of Mississippi, represented her in the settlement ).

Zach Schiller is a public policy analyst in Ohio, and Dan Schiller is a telecommunications historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

It was founded on June 20, 1893, by railway workers gathered in Chicago, Illinois, and under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs ( locomotive fireman and later Socialist Presidential candidate ), the ARU, unlike the trade unions, incorporated a policy of unionizing all railway workers, regardless of craft or service.

" The strategy also aims to affirm God's reality .< ref > Phillip E. Johnson, < cite > Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds </ cite > ( Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1997 ), 91-92 ,</ ref > Its goal is to change American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian, namely evangelical Protestant, values.

In 1999, there were several conditions added to the Minisino Code which explicitly prohibited the wear of Southern Illinois insignia at Crossroads functions or even within the Crossroads boundaries and considered violations of the policy punishable by a council Minisino Disciplinary Committee, a controversial body composed of the Council Chief, the Council Minisino Chairman, and the Council Minisino Adviser.

To unite the company against outside competitors, in 1978 Strang centralized all domestic manufacturing operations at the corporate headquarters in Waukegan, Illinois, charging vice president James C. Chapman with responsibility for their coordination, as well as for manufacturing policy.

As a northern Democrat, he advocated a non-interference policy on slavery and supported Illinois Senator Douglas's policy of " popular sovereignty ", a position which rendered the poet extremely unpopular in Republican Vermont.

Most recently, White implemented a key policy change beginning May 1, 2008 in which out-of-state Commercial driver's license holders moving to Illinois must take and pass the written and road tests before they are issued an Illinois CDL.

ED-RED, " the voice of suburban schools ," is an advocacy organization that monitors and actively influences education policy at the Illinois Statehouse, particularly issues that are priorities for our member school districts.

On November 1, 2007, the Illinois Press Association ( IPA ) and two newspapers ( the Northwest Herald and the State Journal-Register ) filed for a temporary restraining order to prohibit the IHSA from enforcing its policy restricting the use of photographs taken at its state final events.

The IHSA's policy, similar to those adopted by the NCAA, colleges such as Illinois State University and the University of Illinois, and other state high school associations, allows news-gathering organizations to sell photos that are published but prohibits the sale ( usually through a Web site ) of the many photos taken at the event that are not published.

Another associated company, the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, later renamed as Chicago Title and Trust ( CT & T ), had the distinction of issuing the first guarantee policy in Illinois.

He is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hellbender species are present in a number of eastern states that stretch “ from southern New York to northern Georgia ,” including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and even a small bit of Oklahoma and Kansas.

Instead, the proceedings became notorious for the large number of demonstrators and the use of force by the Chicago police during what was supposed to be, in the words of the Yippie activist organizers, “ A Festival of Life .” Rioting took place between demonstrators and the Chicago Police Department, who were assisted by the Illinois National Guard.

Readers were told that the new town would be the logical point for shipping grain They were also told that by shipping from Ellsworth their grain would go throughToledo, “ avoiding the grain scalpers of Chicago .” All interested people were to gather at the Illinois Central Depot in Bloomington at 9: 00 in the morning.

In 2006 the Towanda Area Historical Society partnered with the Towanda District Library to obtain a digital imaging grant from the Illinois State Library entitled “ Capturing Towanda ’ s Past for Eternity ”.

* Ayabe, Masatomo, “ Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923 – 1926 ,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 ( Spring 2009 ), 73 – 100.

The campus at Urbana-Champaign is known as " Illinois ", " U of I ", or “ UIUC ”, whereas the Chicago campus is known as “ UIC ” and the Springfield campus as " UIS ".

In a eulogy for Smith printed in the Illinois Magazine for June 1832 the unknown author claimed “ This map is now probably the best extant, of the Rocky Mountains, and the country on both sides, from the States to the Pacific .” The original map is lost, its content was superimposed probably by George Gibbs on a base map by John C. Frémont, which is on file at the American Geographical Society Library, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Continental Illinois Bank is often credited with issuing the first collateralized debt obligation ( CDO ) when, in 1987, it issued securities representing interests in a pool of “ leveraged loans .”

The Milner Library was named for Angeline “ Ange ” Vernon Milner ( 1856 – 1928 ), a Bloomington-Normal native and the first full-time librarian of Illinois State Normal University.

* Freed, John, “ The Founding of Illinois State Normal University: Normal School or State University ?,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 ( Summer 2008 ), 106 – 26.

He also funds an annual lecture series, “ The Church in Society ”, at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, where he earned his S. T. L.

The sound of it was variously described as " a sort of whippoorwill call ," or " like the war cry of a Viking .” People living along the Illinois Central right-of-way between Jackson, Tennessee, and Water Valley, Mississippi, would turn over in their beds late at night upon hearing it and say “ There goes Casey Jones ” as he roared by.

Rotary's office in Illinois immediately began encouraging the Rotary Club of Shanghai to recruit Chinese members, “ believing that when a considerable number of the native

" On the Origins of the Name “ Illinois ”.

Zenith is a fictitious city in the equally fictitious Midwestern state of “ Winnemac ,” adjacent to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.

The Illinois Air National Guard ’ s 126th Air Refueling Wing and 108th Air Refueling Squadron were also mobilized and actively participated in the “ Air Bridge ” between the United States and the Persian Gulf.

Also, “ If anybody in your family has ever been found guilty of anything you can ’ t vote in the Presidential Election .” Finally, “ If you violate any of these laws, you can get 10 years in prison and your children will be taken away from you .” Another method, allegedly used in Cook County, Illinois in 2004, is to falsely tell particular people that they are not eligible to vote .< ref name = autogenerated2 >