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1 day ago · Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists want to help get it on the map.
4 days ago · This 715-Acre State Park In Illinois Is So Little Known, Even Locals Don’t Know It Exists. Tucked away in the rolling hills of Illinois, an overlooked treasure awaits discovery. Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park offers a peaceful retreat, where the beauty of nature remains untouched by the crowds. Few places offer such tranquility combined with the ...
5 days ago · Geographical and historical treatment of Illinois, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government. Its capital city is Springfield, and its largest city and most important cultural and economic center is Chicago.
5 days ago · Native American tribes in Illinois were all Algonquian-speaking peoples: in the north were the Kickapoo, Sauk, and Fox; in the Lake Michigan area the Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa (Chippewa); on the central prairies the Kaskaskia and Peoria; and in the south the Cahokia and Tamaroa.
2 days ago · Chicago is a city, the seat of Cook county, in northeastern Illinois, U.S. With a population of nearly three million, Chicago is the state’s largest and the country’s third most populous city. It is the commercial and cultural hub of the American Midwest.
3 days ago · Decatur (/ d ɪ ˈ k eɪ t ər / dih-KAY-tər) is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [5] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in ...
4 hours ago · Ted Kaczynski. Theodore John Kaczynski (/ kəˈzɪnski / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. [1][2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive ...
