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Illinois

IL

Place Type
state
Description
Inhabited by 8000 BCE; Mississippian people flourished ca. 1300 CE; had largest pre-Columbian community N of Mexico; various Algonquian tribes were here when French & English settled 17-18th centuries; went to USA in 1778 in Revolution; pro-Union in Civil War.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

John Marion Crook (American, 1857-1924)

Maury Nemoy (American, 1912-1984)

Joyce Wahl Treiman (American, 1922-1991)

Active

Willard C. Johnson (American, 1902-1990)

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