* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

An incident also occurred in April 2007 in the Chicago Loop district, where a coyote, later nicknamed " Adrian ", quietly entered a Quizno's restaurant during the lunch hours ; it was later captured and released at a wildlife rehabilitation center near Barrington, Illinois.

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.

He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a B. A.

* 1926 – Original Sam ' n ' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos ' n ' Andy in 1928.

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.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

* PennMUSH developed from TinyMUD and PernMUSH at University of Pennsylvania, and later at University of California, Berkeley and University of Illinois at Chicago.

* Portland, Illinois, a proposed city adjacent to Blue Island, Illinois that was later largely incorporated into it

Nine years later, in 2005, the Illinois Attorney General filed a second petition with the FDA again seeking black box warnings and " Dear Doctor " letters emphasizing the risk of tendon rupture ; the FDA responded it had not yet been able to reach a decision on the matter.

* In Illinois and Iowa: three of the four Quad Cities — Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa — were formerly known as the Tri-Cities, before the inclusion of East Moline, Illinois and later, Bettendorf, Iowa

President Buchanan signed it the same day, which was also his last full day in office ; it was later ratified by three states: Ohio, Maryland and Illinois.

* June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois ; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.

* March – The University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign is established ( opened 1 year later ).

* December 4 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois people ( the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago ).

Dawson later became U. S. Representative ( from the 1st District ) and soon the most powerful black politician in Illinois.

The fire was investigated by a team led by Rolf H. Jensen, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, who later went on to found RJA Group.

The result was that four supercomputer centers would be chartered ( Cornell, Illinois, Princeton, and San Diego ), with a fifth ( Pittsburgh ) added later.

She left Manzanar in late 1943 for Madison, Wisconsin and one year later moved to Chicago, Illinois.

After being taken prisoner he was recruited at Camp Douglas, Illinois by its commander, Col. James A. Mulligan, as a " Galvanized Yankee " and joined the Union Army on 4 June 1862, but was discharged 18 days later due to severe illness.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, such as Illinois.

Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.

Ohio built many miles of canal, Indiana had working canals for a few decades, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River system until replaced by a channelized river waterway.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Stagg noted that he had Walter Eckersall working on pass plays and saw Pomeroy Sinnock of Illinois throw many passes in 1906.

In 1976, while other teams of mathematicians were racing to complete proofs, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois announced that they had proven the theorem.

He boarded a Chicago-bound train in Mattoon, Illinois ; after the train had started, he was asked for his ticket.

After President Reagan revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, she made herself his primary caregiver and became actively involved with the National Alzheimer's Association and its affiliate, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

If I had a Hammer: the Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left, reprint edition ( University of Illinois Press, 1993 ).

She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.

Numerous cities were built ; Cahokia, the largest, was based in present-day Illinois, and may have had 30, 000 residents at its peak about 1250 AD.

President Cleveland sent federal troops to Illinois to end the Pullman strike — workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, which made railroad cars, had struck after wages were cut.

The University of Illinois also had the first fight song, " Illinois Loyalty ".

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

The British Empire had ceded the Northwest Territory — comprising the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin — to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

Unpopular incumbent President Harry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois ; Stevenson had gained a reputation in Illinois as an intellectual and eloquent orator.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had patented the Isbell and Mayes-Carrel antennas and licensed the design as a package exclusively to JFD electronics in New York.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

Because her father's job required the family to move often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in several places including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Norwich, New York.

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.

* 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.

In addition, there are several schools named after Margaret Mead in the United States: a junior high school in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, an elementary school in Sammamish, Washington and another in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York.

He founded the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and several other material research laboratories across the United States.

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

Upon Clay's instruction, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas ( Illinois ) then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage over the opposition of those with stronger views on both sides.

Upon Clay's urging, senator Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat of Illinois, divided Clay's bill into several smaller bills, and passed each separately.

Shortly after earning his degree, Newman joined several summer stock companies most notably the Woodstock Players in Illinois.

Gaddis had successfully completed several others: in Fairfield and Robinson, Illinois: Perryville, Missouri and two in Indiana, the Putnam County Courthouse in Greencastle ( 1905 ) and the Huntington County Courthouse ( 1906 ) in Huntington, which are also in Classical Revival mode.

The Tribune broke the story on Friday, May 29, 2009, that several students had been admitted to the University of Illinois based upon connections or recommendations by the school's Board of Trustees, Chicago politicians, and members of the Rod Blagojevich administration.

In 2005, Invenergy, LLC of Chicago Illinois announced plans to build the $ 300 million, 124-turbine Beech Ridge Wind Farm along the tops of several Greenbrier County mountains.

According to Atanasoff, several operative principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) were conceived by the professor in a flash of insight during the winter of 1937 – 1938 after a drive to Rock Island, Illinois.

The expansion of railroads in the late nineteenth century made Princeton an important junction on several major railway lines, most notably the Illinois Central and the Louisville & Nashville.

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne, who ultimately designed seven Indiana courthouses as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

Crawford County was home to several battles between the settlers and Indians, and also the location of the only woman ever hanged in Illinois.

After several concerts throughout the U. S. and one in Canada, they ended the tour at Cornerstone Festival, a Christian music festival in Illinois, on June 30.

The Naval station in Dahlgren, Virginia, Dahlgren Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and several ships were named for him, as was Dahlgren, Illinois, and Dahlgren Township, Minnesota.

She graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied theatre for several years before dropping out due to a professional acting job offer.

Local author Troy Taylor has written several passages regarding this site in his books about the Hauntings of Illinois, and was involved in an investigation of the site that was featured on local television networks.

At that time there were several Lutheran families living in what would later be the village of Hodgkins who were members of the Lutheran churches of LaGrange ( St. John ) and Willow Springs ( Trinity ), Illinois.

The Illinois and Michigan Canal ( including several locks ) runs through most of the village, where it is fed by the water of the DuPage River.

There are several other waterways that traverse through the city limits including Hickory Creek, Spring Creek, the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal, Jackson Creek, and Aux Sable Creek.

The Shoot Park hosts several Illinois State trap meets every year, and offers daily shooting.