Illinois

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U.S. state

Illinois is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its major metropolis Chicago, diverse economy, and significant political and transportation influence.

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Observed surface forms (10)

Surface form	Occurrences
State of Illinois	70
Illinois, United States	8
US-IL	3
Illinois (across Mississippi River)	2
U.S. state of Illinois	2
state of Illinois	2
Illinois state government	1
Prairie State	1
people of Illinois	1
state government of Illinois	1

Statements (128)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	U.S. state ⓘ
admittedToUnionOn	1818-12-03 ⓘ
borderedBy	Indiana ⓘ Iowa ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ Lake Michigan ⓘ Missouri ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ
capital	Springfield, Illinois ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
hasAgriculturalProduct	cattle ⓘ corn ⓘ hogs ⓘ soybeans ⓘ wheat ⓘ
hasGovernmentType	U.S. state government ⓘ
hasMajorAirport	Midway International Airport ⓘ surface form: Chicago Midway International Airport O'Hare International Airport ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Alton, Illinois ⓘ Arlington Heights, Illinois ⓘ Aurora, Illinois ⓘ Belleville, Illinois ⓘ Berwyn, Illinois ⓘ Bloomington, Illinois ⓘ Blue Island, Illinois ⓘ Bolingbrook, Illinois ⓘ Burbank, Illinois ⓘ Calumet City, Illinois ⓘ Carbondale, Illinois ⓘ Champaign, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Champaign, Illinois Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Chicago, Illinois Cicero, Illinois ⓘ Danville, Illinois ⓘ DeKalb ⓘ surface form: DeKalb, Illinois Decatur, Illinois ⓘ Des Plaines, Illinois ⓘ Downers Grove, Illinois ⓘ Elgin, Illinois ⓘ Elmhurst, Illinois ⓘ Evanston, Illinois ⓘ Galesburg, Illinois ⓘ Glenview, Illinois ⓘ Granite City, Illinois ⓘ Harvey, Illinois ⓘ Hoffman Estates, Illinois ⓘ Joliet, Illinois ⓘ Kankakee, Illinois ⓘ Lombard, Illinois ⓘ Mattoon, Illinois ⓘ Maywood, Illinois ⓘ Moline, Illinois ⓘ Mount Prospect, Illinois ⓘ Naperville, Illinois ⓘ Normal, Illinois ⓘ Oak Lawn, Illinois ⓘ Oak Park, Illinois ⓘ Orland Park, Illinois ⓘ Palatine, Illinois ⓘ Park Ridge, Illinois ⓘ Peoria, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Peoria, Illinois Quincy, Illinois ⓘ Richton Park, Illinois ⓘ Rockford metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Rockford, Illinois Schaumburg, Illinois ⓘ Skokie, Illinois ⓘ Tinley Park, Illinois ⓘ Urbana, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Urbana, Illinois Waukegan, Illinois ⓘ Wheaton, Illinois ⓘ
hasMajorIndustry	agriculture ⓘ finance ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ services ⓘ transportation ⓘ
hasMajorLake	Lake Michigan ⓘ
hasMajorMetropolitanArea	Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area ⓘ Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Bloomington–Normal–Pontiac metropolitan area Carbondale–Marion metropolitan area ⓘ Carbondale–Marion metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Carbondale–Marion–Herrin metropolitan area Champaign, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area Champaign–Urbana–Rantoul metropolitan area ⓘ Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Chicago–Naperville–Elgin metropolitan area Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Chicago–Naperville–Elgin–Joliet metropolitan area Quad Cities (Illinois portion) ⓘ surface form: Davenport–Moline–Rock Island metropolitan area (Illinois portion) Quad Cities (Illinois portion) ⓘ surface form: Davenport–Moline–Rock Island–Bettendorf metropolitan area (Illinois portion) Decatur, Illinois ⓘ surface form: Decatur metropolitan area Decatur–Taylorville metropolitan area ⓘ Kankakee metropolitan area ⓘ Kankakee metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Kankakee–Bradley–Bourbonnais metropolitan area Peoria metropolitan area ⓘ Peoria metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Peoria–East Peoria metropolitan area Quad Cities (Illinois portion) ⓘ Rockford metropolitan area ⓘ Rockford metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Rockford–Belvidere metropolitan area Springfield metropolitan area ⓘ Springfield metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Springfield–Jacksonville–Lincoln metropolitan area St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: St. Louis metropolitan area (Illinois portion) St. Louis–Belleville metropolitan area (Illinois portion) ⓘ St. Louis–Belleville metropolitan area (Illinois portion) ⓘ surface form: St. Louis–Belleville–East St. Louis metropolitan area (Illinois portion)
hasMajorRiver	Illinois River ⓘ Mississippi River ⓘ Ohio River ⓘ Wabash River ⓘ
hasMajorUniversity	Illinois State University ⓘ Northern Illinois University ⓘ Northwestern University ⓘ Southern Illinois University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ surface form: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
hasNickname	Land of Lincoln ⓘ Illinois ⓘ surface form: Prairie State
hasOfficialLanguage	English ⓘ
hasStateBird	Northern cardinal ⓘ
hasStateFlower	violet ⓘ
hasStateMotto	State Sovereignty, National Union ⓘ
hasStateSong	Illinois (state song) ⓘ
hasStateTree	white oak ⓘ
ISOCode	Illinois self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: US-IL
judicialBody	Illinois Supreme Court ⓘ surface form: Supreme Court of Illinois
largestCity	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Chicago, Illinois
legislature	Illinois General Assembly ⓘ
locatedIn	Midwestern United States ⓘ
lowerHouse	Illinois House of Representatives ⓘ
orderInUnion	21st state ⓘ
postalAbbreviation	IL ⓘ
timeZone	Central Time Zone ⓘ
upperHouse	Illinois Senate ⓘ

Referenced by (1,224)

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Preston Bradley Hall → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Printers Row → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Pritzker School of Law → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Institute for Molecular Engineering (Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Program of African Studies at Northwestern University → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Prophetstown, Illinois → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Pullman, Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Red Line → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Red Line (CTA)

Red Oaks Farm → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Richard J. Daley Center → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Robbins, Illinois → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Rock Island District main line → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Roosevelt station → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Rose Garden → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Rose Garden at Cantigny Park

Roseland, Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Runway 09L/27R → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Runway 09R/27L → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Ryerson Library → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Salt Creek Trail (Illinois) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Sangamon County, Illinois → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Santa Fe Building (Chicago) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

School of the Art Institute of Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Shedd Aquarium → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Shimer College → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Six Flags Great America → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

South Michigan Avenue → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

South Side, Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Southwest Side, Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Sox–35th → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Springfield metropolitan area → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Springfield, Illinois → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

St. Ignatius College → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

St. Louis metropolitan area → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Stagg Field, University of Chicago → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Statue of the Republic (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Streamwood, Illinois → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Stritch School of Medicine → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Tampico, Illinois, United States → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Tampico, Illinois

Taylor Street → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

Terminal 2 → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Terminal 2 (O'Hare)

Terminal 3 → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Terminal 3 (O'Hare)

Terminal 5 → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Terminal 5 (O'Hare)

Tevatron → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

The Signature Lounge at the 96th (historical) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: The Signature Lounge at the 96th

The Signature Room at the 95th (historical) → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: The Signature Room at the 95th

Tri-Taylor neighborhood → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ

subject surface form: Tri-Taylor

Tyndale House Publishers → locatedIn → Illinois ⓘ