These are New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Illinois and Minnesota.

Other groups include: Carnegie Mellon University's Deewane, Northwestern University's Brown Sugar, Chai-Town from the University of Illinois, Raagapella from Stanford University, Andaaz from the University of California, Irvine, and Maize Mirchi from University of Michigan.

Other states with large representations in the student body are Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio.

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.

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

This project began with the construction and improvement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and was completed with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that connects to the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River.

Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan.

He persuaded Virginia to give up its claims to northwestern territories — consisting of most of modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota — to the Continental Congress.

Lake Michigan is bounded, from west to east, by the U. S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan.

Some schools, such as Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago, Illinois the Roberto Clemente Charter School in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Roberto Clemente Academy in Detroit, Michigan, were named in his honor.

Rockwell International was a major employer in Southern California, Ohio, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and western Pennsylvania.

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

Its current borders include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lower Michigan, and parts of Kentucky, Iowa and Ontario.

* Illinois and Michigan Canal

* The Illinois and Michigan Canal is completed.

* October 8 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan.

In the United States it is found most notably in California, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington but also in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont wine.

In the course of time, this land was divided among Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.

* 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 ).

Clinton won the Michigan and Illinois primaries.

MACBDA is currently host to more than 20 actively competing, summer-only field show bands from the US ( Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan ) and Canada ( Saskatchewan and Alberta ).

Ogden was a leading promoter and investor in the Illinois and Michigan Canal, then switched his loyalty to railroads.

Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks and Towpath, a collection of eight engineering structures and segments of the canal between Lockport and LaSalle-Peru, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.

New lock and dam structures that replaced the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal In 1892, the direction of part of the Chicago River was reversed by the Army Corps of Engineers with the result that the river and much of Chicago's sewage flowed into the canal instead of into Lake Michigan.

* Shabbona Trail includes of the Illinois and Michigan Canal Trail.

Prairie Passage: The Illinois and Michigan Canal Corridor.

* Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor at U. S. National Park Service

* Illinois & Michigan Canal State Trail

* Chicago Historical Society: Illinois & Michigan Canal

* The Illinois and Michigan Canal, 1827 – 1911: A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives

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After the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Hennepin Canal in the 19th century, the role of the river as link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi was extended into the era of modern industrial shipping.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

The course ran from the South side of the city, north along the lakefront to Evanston, Illinois, and back again.

The NLP ran a candidate in Illinois for Senate.

On the strength of his father's political machine, Daley ran for and won a seat in the Illinois Senate, serving from 1972 to 1980.

Following the panic of 1837 however, funding ran dry and construction was stopped at Vandalia, Illinois, after crossing the states of Ohio and Indiana.

Born in Riverdale, Illinois, Robinson ran her first 100 meter race on March 30, aged 16.

One or both of the brothers ran a trading post near where Big Bureau Creek empties into the Illinois River from 1776 until 1780 or 1790.

Regular Democratic nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was not listed on the state ballot.

The company developed and ran Potlatch on a model mostly patterned after that used by Pullman Company for its company town in Illinois.

According to the original surveys of Illinois, in the early 19th century, the Lusk's Ferry Road ran through the middle of what is now Royalton, heading on a diagonal line toward the southeast.

The line was built by the Carpentersville, Elgin and Aurora Railway from a connection with the streetcar system in Elgin, Illinois and ran for four miles, terminating at the Illinois Iron and Bolt foundry on Main Street.

The second railroad ran east and west and was called the " Three I " or Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa Railroad, later the New York Central.

An electric street car line known as the Rockford & Interurban ran from Rockford through Winnebago, Illinois and Pecatonica to Ridott, Illinois and on to Freeport until the line's eventual abandonment in 1973.

The Illinois Central Railroad main line was completed in 1854, and ran through Section Seven, which eventually became the City of Minonk.

The Baton Rouge-Hammond line was completed by the Illinois Central railroad during the first part of February, 1908 and the first train ran on Feb. 26.

Dodge Center also used to be on the Chicago Great Western mainline which ran south from St. Paul down through Iowa and across to Chicago, Illinois.

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control in Grenoble, France ran MTS on a trial basis, as did the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, Southern Illinois University, the Naval Postgraduate School, Amdahl Corporation, ST Systems for McGill University Hospitals, Stanford University, and University of Illinois in the United States, and a few other sites.

The National Road ran west from Baltimore to Illinois.

The Wisconsin and Illinois campuses ran simultaneously until 1964, when the Illinois campus closed its doors ( with the campus facilities taken over by Robert Morris College in 1965-now Robert Morris University ( Illinois )) and the college and its old traditions were moved to Wisconsin.