At the time the US entered World War I, Insull was named head of the Illinois Defense Council by President Woodrow Wilson ; his efforts sold over a million dollars of War Bonds.

Insull also founded Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, which developed rural electrification in northern Illinois outside Chicago.

Samuel Insull, the founder of Commonwealth Edison helped develop the coal fields along with Francis Peabody and his Illinois Midland Coal Company.

In the 1920s Insull bought some of the trackage of the bankrupt Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad ( CP & StL ), running from Springfield to Havana on the Illinois River and then running northeast from Havana to East Peoria.

Insull then built a rail-to-river coal transfer facility on the Illinois River at Havana, IL, where coal could be dumped from rail cars into barges for shipment up the Illinois River to Commonwealth Edison power plants on the river in the Chicago area.

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 ).

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.

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.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

In 1946, David P. Boder, a professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, traveled to Europe to record long interviews with " displaced persons "— most of them Holocaust survivors.

The Illinois River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the State of Illinois.

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

Many of the other scenes were filmed in Northbrook, Illinois, including at Glenbrook North High School, on School Drive, the famous long curvy street on which Glenbrook North and neighboring Maple Middle School are situated.

Scouting in Illinois has a long and rich tradition, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

Orion ( The " Or " is pronounced " oar " and the " i " like a long " e ") is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

From 1958 to 1969, Carpentersville was home to the Meadowdale International Raceway, a long automobile race track located west of Illinois Route 31 which was also started by Besinger.

Carlinville has long been a site of Illinois history, and has played host to many presidential hopefuls via campaign stops at a time in American history when railway routes produced many visits by politicians.

The Illinois Traction System operated long after similar electric railroads in other areas had closed.

Mackinaw has a long and interesting history in Central Illinois:

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs predominantly east / west from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.

* August 19 – US swimmer Sharon Finneran breaks the world record in the women's 200m butterfly ( long course ) during a meet in Chicago, Illinois – 2: 31. 2.

Growing up in southern Illinois, which had long been influenced by Southern migrants and culture, he learned about some relationships between African Americans and whites, and their misunderstandings.

This was the cause of much discontent among students at the Illinois campus who were long under the impression that the Illinois and Wisconsin campuses would both be operated by Carthage.

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.

Since its founding the Field Museum has been an international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography, and has long maintained close links, including joint teaching, students, seminars, with local universities — particularly the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago

In 1946 David Boder, a professor of psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, traveled to Europe to record long interviews with " displaced persons "— most of them Holocaust survivors.

His district was long considered the most Republican district in the Chicago area, if not in all of Illinois.

The tornado formed from a supercell thunderstorm, which initially formed in the vicinity of Janesville in south central Wisconsin, and produced a tornado near Pecatonica in Winnebago County, Illinois near Rockford which touched down at 1: 42 p. m. That tornado did not live long, but the storm continued to move southeast towards the Aurora area, but with no official touchdown and only minor roof damage.

For major turnpikes in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and West Virginia, tolls continue to be collected, even though the turnpikes have long since been paid for.

Chicago, Detroit, Illinois Terminal, Pacific Electric, and San Francisco had longer cars, as long as.

The Rock River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U. S. states of Wisconsin and Illinois.