2. Populations (12,419,293)
3. Capital (springfield)
4. Motto (state sovereignty, national union)
5. Bird (cardinal)
6. Flower (purple violet)
7. Tree (white oak)
8. Song Title ("Illinois" by C.H. Chamberlin)
9. Pictures:
10. Attractions:
World's biggest man
Alton, Illinois
Exhibits and statue at the birthplace of the World's Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow.
Superman Museum
Metropolis, Illinois
The Super Museum, life's work of Jim Hambrick, is stuffed with over 20,000 items relating to the Superman saga, from first appearance in comic books.
11. 4 Fast Facts:
*Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's.
*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 Chicago River is dyed green on Saint Patrick's Day.
*The worst prison camp during the Civil War in terms of percentages of death was at Rock Island.
12. Sources
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/il.html
http://www.50states.com/
