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The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, is the building that houses the executive and legislative branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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The Prairie State is a nickname for Illinois due to the fact that there is many Prairie lands in the state. Another nickname for Illinois is the Land of Lincoln. It is called the Land of Lincoln because it was Lincolns home before becoming president. Illinois means Tribe of Superior men.

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Illinois's original state flag was designed in 1913 by Lucy Derwent (who had won a contest), but was redesigned in 1970 by Mrs. Sanford Hutchinson. The flag's design is based upon the state's seal, which was designed by Sharon Tyndale, Illinois' secretary of state, in 1868.  The flag has a white background, and much of the Illinois state seal is pictured in the center. There is a bald eagle perched on a rock holding a red, white, and blue shield in its talons

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We joined the union on December 3rd 1818. Illinois was the 21st state to enter the unionThe name Illinois came from the the tribe illiniwek which was the illini tribe. Illinois means Tribe of Superior men.

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In 1700s and early 1800s Indian Tribes started moving east. Some of the Indian Tribes are Fox (Mesquakie), Ioway, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Painkashaw, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Wea, and Winnebago.

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Chicago had a great fire on Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871 the fire destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2).

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White oak was picked to be Illinois official state tree by over 900000 votes in a school in 1973

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the Violet was chosen in 1908 to be Illinois state flower, violets are found in lawns and prairies. In 1907 a vote taken from school kids was what decided what the state flower would be

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White tail deer was picked in 1980 by schoolchildren in a vote. A white tailed deer's tail is 3.94 inches long and it weights about 88.18 pounds. when a white tailed deer runs, it runs about 46.6 MPH.

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A President who had once lived in Illinois

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A President who had once lived in Illinois

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Barack Obama was born Honolulu, Hawaii. He went to college at Colombia University in Chicago Illinois in the early 1990s then he began his political career in 1997 and became president on January 20, 2009.

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Schoolchildren of Illinois choose a cardinal for, the state bird in 1929, Illinois is not the only state that shard this bird, there are 6 more states with the cardinal as the state bird.