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About the state of Illinois -
Illinois (pronounced for those who speak English, "ill-i-NOY") constitutes the 21st state of the United States,
located in the former Northwest Territory. Its name was given by the state's French explorers after the
indigenous Illiniwek people, a consortium of Algonquin tribes that thrived in the area. The word Illiniwek means
simply "the people."
The capital of Illinois is Springfield
while its largest city is Chicago
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Other cities in Illinois are:
Alton | Aurora
| Bartlett | Belleville
| Belvidere | Berwyn
| Bloomington | Bourbonnais
| Bradley | Canton
| Carbondale | Centralia
| Champaign | Charleston
| Chatham | Chicago
Heights | Collinsville
| Creve Coeur | Danville
| Decatur | Des
Plaines | Dixon | Downers
Grove | East Moline
| East Peoria | East
Saint Louis | Edwardsville
| Effingham | Elgin
| Freeport | Galesburg
| Granite City | Jacksonville
| Joliet | Kankakee
| Kewanee | La
Salle | Lincoln | Loves
Park | Machesney Park
| Macomb | Marion
| Mattoon | Moline
| Mount Sterling | Mount
Vernon | Murphysboro
| Naperville | Normal
| Olney | Ottawa
| Palatine | Pana
| Paris | Pekin
| Peoria | Pittsfield
| Pontiac | Princeton
| Quincy | Robinson
| Rock Island | Rockford
| Schaumburg | Skokie
| Springfield | Streator
| Taylorville | Urbana
| Washington | Waukegan
| West Frankfort | Wheaton
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Living in Illinois
People of Illinois - According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2004 the population of
Illinois was 12,713,634. This includes 1,682,900 foreign-born (13.3%).
At the northern edge of the state on Lake Michigan lies Chicago, the nation's third largest city.
In 2000, 23.3% of the population lived in the city of Chicago, 43.3% in Cook County and 65.6% in Illinois's
part of Chicagoland, the leading industrial and transportation center in the region, which includes Will,
DuPage, and Lake Counties as well as Cook County. The rest of the population lives in the smaller cities
and in the rural areas that dot the state's plains.
The top five ancestry groups in Illinois are: German (19.6%), African American (15.1%), Irish (12.2%),
Mexican (9.2%), Polish (7.5%).
Nearly three in ten whites in Illinois claimed at least partial German ancestry on the Census,
making the Germans the largest ancestry group in the state. Blacks are present in large numbers
in the city of Chicago, East St. Louis, and the southern tip of the state. Residents of American
and British ancestry are especially concentrated in the southeastern part of the state. Metropolitan
Chicago has the greatest numbers of people of Irish, Mexican, and Polish ancestry.
7.1% of Illinois' population were reported as under 5, 26.1% under 18, and 12.1% were 65 or older.
Females made up approximately 51% of the population.
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Alton |
Aurora |
Bartlett |
Belleville |
Belvidere |
Berwyn |
Bloomington |
Bourbonnais |
Bradley |
Canton |
Carbondale |
Centralia |
Champaign |
Charleston |
Chatham |
Chicago Heights |
Collinsville |
Creve Coeur |
Danville |
Decatur |
Des Plaines |
Dixon |
Downers Grove |
East Moline |
East Peoria |
East Saint Louis |
Edwardsville |
Effingham |
Elgin |
Freeport |
Galesburg |
Granite City |
Jacksonville |
Joliet |
Kankakee |
Kewanee |
La Salle |
Lincoln |
Loves Park |
Machesney Park |
Macomb |
Marion |
Mattoon |
Moline |
Mount Sterling |
Mount Vernon |
Murphysboro |
Naperville |
Normal |
Olney |
Ottawa |
Palatine |
Pana |
Paris |
Pekin |
Peoria |
Pittsfield |
Pontiac |
Princeton |
Quincy |
Robinson |
Rock Island |
Rockford |
Schaumburg |
Skokie |
Springfield |
Streator |
Taylorville |
Urbana |
Washington |
Waukegan |
West Frankfort |
Wheaton |
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