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Spring field is about 100 miles northeast of St. Louis and is 185 miles southwest of Chicago.

Settlement of the area began in 1820 called Calhoun.

Spring field had a population of less than 3,000.

Before Spring field was the capitol the capitol used to be Vandalia.

Some things to see in Spring field are the Lincoln Library the Lincoln Memorial and the Lincoln house.

The population of Spring Field is now 210,170.

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Their are 59 senators in total in the Illinois two of the current senators are Tammy Duck worth and Richard Durban. Illinois has 18 representatives from the United States House of Representatives two of the current ones are Dan LIpinski and Robin Kelly.

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In 1673 the Illinois were a large powerful  group tribes that numbered 10,000 people .

In 1832 when they ceded the last of their Illinois lands they were reduced to less than 300 people.

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In 1817 Illinois applied to be a state of the U.S. On December 3, 1818 Illinois became the 21st state of the United States.

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The flag's design was official on July 16, 1915. The background of the flag is white, on the bottom it says ILLINOIS in blue. The Illinois seal is on it which has an eagle on a rock holding a shield that has 13 stripes and 13 stars, in the eagles mouth there is a banner that says "State Sovereignty- National state" ,the dates 1818 and 1868 are on the rock. In 1969  water ,the rising sun and Illinois were added. The bald eagle represents America and its strength, thirteen stars and stripes represents the original 13 colonies, 1818 represents the statehood of Illinois and 1868 represents the year the current seal was adopted. Lucy Derwent designed the flag.

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Abraham Lincoln lived in spring field from 1837 to 1861. before Abraham Lincoln was a president he was a lawyer.

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The state flower of Illinois is the violet. It officially became the state flower in 1908 after the school children picked it.  Illinois was the first of 4 eastern states to officially adopt the violet as the state flower. There are 8 different species of violets in Illinois, the most common in the dooryard violet.