It seemed incredible, as I listened to the monotonous drone of voices and smelled the fetid odors coming from the patients, that technically I was a ward of the state of Illinois, going to a hospital for the mentally ill.

Only two people in the state of Illinois knew that I was entering Hanover State Hospital under an assumed name, or why.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

The US state of Illinois declared " American " to be the state's official language in 1923, although linguists and politicians throughout much of the rest of the country considered American simply to be a dialect.

* 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U. S. state.

The sale of dextromethorphan in its pure powder form may incur penalties, although no explicit law exists prohibiting its sale or possession, other than in the state of Illinois.

That year he also set the state high school record for the high jump in Illinois.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

Memorandums from an Illinois court case in 2007 state their membership in the United States at 40.

At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10 % of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month ; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25 %, very nearly equalled that of Andersonville.

Major General John A. McClernand was authorized to raise an army in his home state of Illinois for the purpose of taking Vicksburg ; Grant was very frustrated at the lack of direction he was receiving to move forward from his station in Memphis, and more aggravated to learn of this apparent effort to brush him aside.

Ted Briseno was fired from the LAPD in 1994 despite both state and federal acquittals after informing on his fellow officers in violation of their unwritten Blue Code of Silence and is living somewhere in Illinois.

* December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U. S. state.

Iowa designated the oak as its official state tree in 1961 ; and the White Oak is the state tree of Connecticut, Illinois and Maryland.

Daley was named one of Illinois ' ten worst state legislators by Chicago Magazine " for arrogance, for sharklike qualities, for living off his father's name, and for pulling puppet strings attached to some of the worst members of the Senate.

A 1978 state law designed by Illinois Democrats gave the Mayor the power to appoint to fill vacancies in the City Council rather than holding special elections.

Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Missouri participated in their first presidential election in 1820, Missouri with controversy, since it was not yet officially a state ( see below ).

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.

Some LATAs cross over state boundaries, such as those for the New York metropolitan area and Greenwich, Connecticut ; Chicago, Illinois ; Portland, Oregon ; and areas between Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

During the meeting, Daley explained to the president that in the 1966 congressional races, there had been a disappointing showing of Democrats, and that if the convention were not held in Illinois, that the president might lose the swing state with its twenty-seven electoral votes.

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

He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.

In 2007, Khatri and Wandelt of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign realized that the 21 cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen of the early Universe leaves a unique absorption line imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

This time Representative Stephen Douglas, Democrat of Illinois, reintroduced the proposal to simply extend the Missouri Compromise line to the west coast, and this was again defeated 109 – 82.

The native range lies roughly south of a line from southeastern Nebraska through southern Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana to southwestern Ohio.

In that game, George lost a fumble at the Illinois ' 4-yard line that was returned 96 yards for a touchdown.

Later in the game, with Ohio State leading by 2 points in the final quarter, George fumbled again, this time on Illinois ' 1-yard line.

Interstate 57 ( I-57 ) is an Interstate Highway in Missouri and Illinois that parallels the old Illinois Central rail line for much of its route.

Competitive pressures had forced all the Canadian railways to convert to standard gauge by 1880, and Illinois Central converted its south line to New Orleans to standard gauge in 1881, putting pressure on the southern railways.

The Illinois Central Railroad built a branch line from Jackson, Tennessee to Grenada, passing through Water Valley and Coffeeville, in the late 1850s.

Warren County lies in western Indiana between the Illinois state line and the Wabash River in the United States.

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.

State Line City is in the southwestern part of the county and shares its western border with the Illinois state line.

CSX Transportation operates a railroad line running from Danville, Illinois to Terre Haute ; this line runs most of the length of Vermillion County from north to south, passing through Rilesyburg, Cayuga, and Clinton before crossing the Wabash River.

Another CSX line coming from Decatur, Illinois enters the county from the west and meets the north – south line near Hillsdale.

Interstate 80 / 94 / US 6 is the Frank Borman Expressway from the Illinois state line east to the Indiana Toll Road interchange in the eastern portion of the county.

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.

A Norfolk Southern Railway line runs across the north end of the county on its route between Danville, Illinois and Lafayette ; it carries about 45 freight trains each day.

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

Recently, in the past decade, Wabash Valley and Crossroads of America were merged to form the new Crossroads of America Council, serving 25 counties in Indiana, extending from the Illinois state line to the Ohio state line.