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• the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?
• the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois?
• the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?
• the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
• the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois?
• the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, from 1696 to 1700?
• the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago, Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters?
• there are fords at Illinois' White Pines Forest State Park (crossing pictured) allowing visitors to drive through the stream?
• the original owner of Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket (pictured) in Willowbrook, Illinois, would hire local youths to ice skate on the roof during winter?
• the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower?
• the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
• the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
• the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?
• WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois, USA?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?