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Illinois

state of the United States of America

17 dated entries naming Illinois, drawn from 15 separate years between 1769 CE and 1958 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1769April 20 – Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa is killed by a Kaskaskia Indian in Illinois.source

19th century

  • 1816June – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, Illinois.source
  • 1818December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.source
  • 1818December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state (see History of Illinois).source
  • 1833August 12 – The settlement of Chicago is established by 350 settlers at the estuary of the Chicago River in the U.S. state of Illinois.source
  • 1836December 20 – Sudden freeze kills many travelers in Illinois.source
  • 1851January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois.source
  • 1857Illinois State University, the first public university in Illinois, is established in Normal, Illinois.source
  • 1858August 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois.source
  • 1860August 25 – The Stone's Prairie Riot takes place in Payson and Plainville, Illinois between the Republican Wide Awakes and armed Democratic supporters of Stephen A. Douglas.source
  • 1873May – Henry Rose exhibits barbed wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish, who invent a machine to mass-produce it.source
  • 1888Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in Illinois.source
  • 1894May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.source

20th century

  • 1924October 9 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois (later known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated.source
  • 1925March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.source
  • 1925March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path is indicated at 378 km (235 mi).source
  • 1958August 21–October 15 – Illinois observes the centennial of the Lincoln–Douglas debates.source

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