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Illinois is a state in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is its largest city, and the state's capital is Springfield; other major metropolitan areas include Metro East (of Greater St. Louis), Peoria and Rockford. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth
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See more"Illinois" is the modern spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers' name for the Illinois Native Americans, a name that was spelled in many different ways in the early records.
American scholars...
See moreIllinois is located in the Midwest region of the United States and is one of the eight states in the Great Lakes region of North America (which also
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See moreThe United States Census Bureau found that the population of Illinois was 12,812,508 in the 2020 United States census, moving from the fifth-largest state to the sixth-largest state
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See moreMuseums
Illinois has numerous museums; the greatest concentration of these are in Chicago. Several museums in Chicago are ranked as some of the...
See moreThe Illinois state parks system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, becoming the first park in a system encompassing more than 60 parks and about the same number of
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See moreGeologic history
During the early part of the Paleozoic Era, the area that would one day become Illinois was submerged beneath a shallow sea and located near the...
See moreThe dollar gross state product for Illinois was estimated to be US$909 billion in 2019. The state's 2019 per capita gross state product was estimated to be around $72,000.
As of February 2019, the unemployment rate in Illinois reached...
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