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Interesting Data About Illinois

- The first Aquarium opened in Chicago, 1893.
- The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885.
- Home to the Chicago Bears Football Team, Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Chicago Cubs and Chicago Whitesox baseball teams, Chicago Fire soccer team.
- The first Mormon Temple in Illinois was constructed in Nauvoo.
- Peoria is the oldest community in Illinois.
- The Sears Tower, Chicago is the tallest building on the North American continent.
- Metropolis the home of Superman really exists in Southern Illinois.
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site--most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico.
- Illinois had two capital cities, Kaskaskia, and Vandalia before Springfield.
- The NFL's Chicago Bears were first known as the "Staley Bears". They were organized in 1920, in Decatur.



- Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. 1865
- On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
- Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's.
- Dixon is the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan.
- Springfield is the state capital and the home of the National Historic Site of the home of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
- Chicago is home to the Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
- Before Abraham Lincoln was elected president he served in the Illinois legislature and practiced law in Springfield. Abraham Lincoln is buried just outside Springfield at Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site.
- Carlyle is the home of the largest man-made lake in Illinois.
- Illinois has 102 counties.
- Ronald Wilson Regan from Tampico became the 40th president of the United States in 1980.
- The highest point in Illinois is Charles Mound at 1235 feet above sea level.
- The state motto is: State Sovereignty, National Union
- The ice cream "sundae" was named in Evanston. The piety of the town resented the dissipating influences of the soda fountain on Sunday and the good town fathers, yielding to this churchly influence, passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Ingenious confectioners and drug store operators obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda. Objections then was made to christening a dish after the Sabbath. So the spelling of "sunday" was changed. It became an established dish and an established word and finally the "sundae".
- The round Silo for farm storage of silage was first constructed on a farm in Spring Grove.
- The Illinois state dance is square dancing.