From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

* BMI, the IATA code for the Central Illinois Regional Airport

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.

* Illinois Central College, main campus in East Peoria ; two campuses in Peoria, one in Pekin, Illinois

* 1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100, 000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

* 1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the ' worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history ' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

The screenplay by Scott Z. Burns is based on Kurt Eichenwald's book, The Informant, with most of the filming done in Central Illinois ( Moweaqua and Decatur )..

* Central Illinois Steel Guitar Association Information about central Illinois steel guitar players, events, and shows.

The Central Division consists of Northern Illinois, Minnesota, Eastern Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin.

** Four of 5 railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, bringing to a head a 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.

When the Illinois Central Railroad was built into Chicago in 1852, it was permitted to lay track along the lakefront on a causeway built offshore from the park.

In 2004, a section of northern Grant Park, previously occupied by Illinois Central railyards and parking lots, was covered and redeveloped as Millennium Park.

Both of those have since been sold to Niemann Foods, an independent operator of grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores in Central Illinois which now operates them under the Cub Foods – County Market brand.

** Jewel-Osco and Jewel stores ( 10 stores ), located in Central and Western Illinois, Eastern Iowa.

The Central Illinois Regional Airport near Bloomington has a whimsical statue of Stevenson, sitting on a bench with his feet propped on his briefcase and his head in one hand, as if waiting for his flight.

* The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois was eliminated and a new United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois was created in its place on October 2, 1978.

* Illinois Department of Central Management Services, a state agency

* East North Central Division: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

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

* Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad, a freight railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and South Bend, Indiana

The 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment, under Colonel John B. Wyman, was brought in to guard Rolla and the Pacific Railroad ’ s terminal.

Illinois Central Railroad were laid through the county in 1870, the county seat was moved from Lake City to Rockwell City.

A few years later, in 1872, a branch of the Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad ( known as the " Pumpkin Vine Railroad ") was built from Bismarck, Illinois, southeast through Warren County ; it was built specifically to carry coal from the mines south of Covington.

It became part of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad but was abandoned in 1920 due to financial difficulties ; a new company operated the line as the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad starting in 1921, but financial problems affected the new company as well and the rails were removed in 1946.

The Vermilion Valley Railroad passes through the very north edge of the county on its way from the Flex-N-Gate factory west of Covington to Danville, Illinois.

The first railroad through the county was the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ) which was built from the east across the northern part of the county and reached Attica in 1856 ; it continued west through Warren County and reached the Illinois state line the following year.

In 1905 the Illinois Central Railroad built a line from Indianapolis to Effingham, Illinois.

The development of the county was greatly furthered by the arrival of the Chicago Branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, and even more by the establishment of the land-grant university.

Haleyville was originally named Davis Cross Roads, having been established at the crossroads of Byler Road and the Illinois Central Railroad.

McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.

The city is on the Burlington Northern Railroad Southern Transcon route which runs between Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois.

Rail service is provided by Union Pacific Railroad, and connects with the main line to Portland, Oregon ; Rock Island, Illinois ; Tucumcari, New Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Champaign was founded in 1855, when the Illinois Central Railroad laid its rail track two miles ( 3 km ) west of downtown Urbana.

The village was renamed Ludlow in 1867 after Thomas W. Ludlow, a shareholder in the Illinois Central Railroad.

In 1853, the Illinois Central Railroad ( IC ) established a station in Hartford, calling it Thornton Station, as most of the passengers came from nearby Thornton.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

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.

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

After Missouri, Smith built the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, near which Smith was assassinated.

HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant ( the University of Illinois ' Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built ).

He built a close association with his friend Lowden and served as his campaign manager for governor of Illinois in 1904.

After U. S. ownership of the region was confirmed in the Treaty of Ghent ( 1814 ), the U. S. built or expanded forts along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, including adding to Fort Bellefontaine, and constructing Fort Armstrong ( 1816 ) and Fort Edwards ( 1816 ) in Illinois, Fort Crawford ( 1816 ) in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin, Fort Snelling ( 1819 ) in Minnesota, and Fort Atkinson ( 1819 ) in Nebraska.

* The first skyscraper ( the Home Insurance Building ) is built in Chicago, Illinois, USA ( 10 floors ).

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.

Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built in 1803 beside the Chicago River in what is now Chicago, Illinois.

He built modest state campaigns in four targeted states — New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

An amateur radio operator, Grote Reber, was one of the pioneers of what became known as radio astronomy when he built the first parabolic " dish " radio telescope ( in diameter ) in his back yard in Illinois in 1937.

Starting off playing at a club called Kingsbury's in Madison, Illinois, within a year Turner had built up a full gig schedule, establishing his group as one of the most highly rated on the St. Louis club circuit, vying for popularity with their main competition, Sir John's Trio featuring Chuck Berry.

In 1929, the company built a new office, warehouse, and coffee roasting facility in suburban Barrington, Illinois, creating hundreds of local jobs despite the Great Depression.

In 1970 working with Kodak, Osco built a photofinishing lab from scratch in Elgin, Illinois.

The William Emery house, built in Elmhurst, Illinois, in 1903 was such a commission.

In 1680, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built the first fort in Illinois, Ft. St. Louis, at Starved Rock.

The association has active state chapters in 12 Lincoln Highway states and maintains a national tourist center in Franklin Grove, Illinois, in an historic building built by Harry Isaac Lincoln, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

The first Seedling Mile was built in 1914 west of Malta, Illinois, but after years of experience the LHA began a design effort for a road section that could handle traffic 20 years into the future.

From 1909 to 1951, Charles G. Dawes lived in this Charles G. Dawes House | house at 225 Greenwood St. in Evanston, Illinois, which was built in 1894 by Robert Sheppard.