State Profile for Illinois

Added to Union: December 3, 1818 (21st State)	State Official Bird: Cardinal
Capital: Springfield	State Official Flower: Native Violet
State Website: http://www.illinois.gov/	State Official Tree: White Oak

Historical Figures from Illinois

• David Davis
  
• Melville Weston Fuller
  
• Arthur Joseph Goldberg
  
• Robert Todd Lincoln
  
• Ronald Reagan
  
• John Paul Stevens
  

Historical Sites in Illinois

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield
  
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Springfield
  
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield
  
• McDonald's #1 Store Museum, Des Plaines
  
• Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield
  
• Ronald Reagan Birthplace, Tampico
  
• U.S. Grant's Home State Historic Site, Galena
  

There are 7 sites in Illinois

Did you know?

The Emancipation Proclamation, enacted by President Lincoln, only freed slaves in territories not under Union control. The slave-owning territories that still belonged to the Union were not required to free their slaves. This was in order to not lose the support of those territories still part of the Union.

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