Ottawa / Collinsville / Paris / Greenville / Philadelphia / Washington / D.C. / Columbus / Lockport / Springfield / St. Louis / Nauvoo / Warsaw / Baltimore / Jacksonville / New Orleans / Kaskaskia / Chicago / Chippewa / Canalport / Potawatomi / /
Company
Illinois Herald / Pullman Car Company / the Guardian / /
Continent
America / North America / /
Country
France / United Kingdom / United States / Spain / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Voting Result / Person Travel / Employment Change / Labor Issues / /
Facility
Fort Crevecoeur / Illinois State Historical Library / Northwestern University / Fort Clark / Haymarket Square / Illinois Wesleyan University / William Le Baron Jenney’s Home Insurance Building / Chicago’s Saint Ignatius College / Fort Ascension / Loyola University / Oak Ridge Cemetery / Chicago’s Haymarket Square / Fort St. Louis / Fort Massac / State Capitol Building / Carthage jail / Fort Sumter / Fort Dearborn / Havana harbor / University of Chicago / Fort Pimitoui / Ship Canal / Fort Edwards / Fort Armstrong / Michigan Canal / /
IndustryTerm
printing press / improved law / state bank / steel plow / compulsory school attendance law / /
Movie
The Civil War / Declaration of Independence / /
NaturalFeature
La Forest / Rock Island / Lake Michigan / Ohio River / Mississippi River / Kaskaskia River / Knox Counties Illinois River / Illinois River / Lake Peoria / Peoria Lake / /
Organization
General Assembly / Illinois General Assembly / Holy Family Mission / first state normal university / U.S. government / Union Army / Illinois Department of Agriculture / Hull House in Chicago / Mission of the Guardian Angel / Illinois Indian mission / office of Public Instruction / Democratic Party / Northwestern University / Chicago’s Saint Ignatius College / Congress / Illinois Wesleyan University / The University of Chicago / Loyola University / U.S. House of Representatives / Chicago Board of Trustees / /
Person
John M. Palmer / Grover Cleveland / Thomas Ford / James G. Blaine / Jean Baptiste Pont / Abraham Lincoln / Shelby M. Cullom / Joseph Duncan / Arthur St. Clair / George Rogers Clark / Andrew Jackson / John Warner / Jane Addams / Shadrach Bond / John P. Altgeld / Francois Pinet / Louis Jolliet / Ulysses S. Grant / Richard Yates / John R. Tanner / Stephen A. Douglas / John Reynolds / Kentuckian John Todd / Joel A. Matteson / Joseph Smith / Thomas Carlin / Matthew Duncan / William L.D. Ewing / John L. Beveridge / George M. Pullman / William Jennings Bryan / James A. Garfield / Joseph W. Fifer / John W. E. Thomas / Benjamin Harrison / Robert Root / Monroe / George B. McClellan / Jacques Marquette / Hyrum / William H. Bissell / John A. Logan / William Henry Harrison / Edward Coles / John Wood / Elijah P. Lovejoy / John M. Hamilton / Adlai E. Stevenson / James Madison / Augustus C. French / Richard J. Oglesby / /
Position
President / Vice President / General / hog butcher / Major / Territory Governor / editor / actor / Jesuit priest / Lt. Gov. / first Governor / first county lieutenant / Senator / Governor / first superintendent / Civil War Governor / leader / /
Product
Prairie / /
ProvinceOrState
Saline County / Hancock County / Minnesota / Virginia / Maine / Randolph County / Indiana / Knox / Michigan / Missouri / Utah / Mississippi / Kentucky / Wisconsin / Illinois / Macon County / Arkansas / /
CHRONOLOGY OF ILLINOIS HISTORY 20,000 B.C.E.-8,000 B.C.E. — Paleo-Indians migrate into Illinois. They gather wild plants and hunt animals, including the giant bison, wooly mammoth and mastodon. 8,000-1,000 B.C.E. — D