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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Champaign [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chicago [r]: Largest city in Illinois and the Midwest United States with a population of 2.8m. [e]
- Decatur [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Normal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peoria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rock Island [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rockford [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Springfield [r]: The capital city of the state of Illinois, in the Midwestern U.S. [e]
- Urbana [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politics and government
State government
U.S. Senate
- Roland Burris [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Illinois); Senate Armed Services Committee, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Committee on Veterans Affairs; appointed to fill the seat vacated by Barack Obama [e]
- Richard J. Durbin [r]: Add brief definition or description
U.S. House of Representatives
- Melissa L. Bean [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judy Biggert [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-Illinois), U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor: Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee and Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness; House Science and Technology Committee: Subcommittee on Energy and Environment (ranking member) and Technology and Innovation; House Financial Services Committee: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, coauthor of Sarbanes Oxley Act; bipartisan House Financial Literacy and Economic Education Caucus; Congressional Internet Caucus [e]
- Jerry Costello [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Danny K. Davis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Luis Gutierrez [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Illinois) 4th; House Judiciary Committee; House Financial Services Committee; 2002 "no" on Iraq War and Out of Iraq Caucus; Congressional Progressive Caucus; Congressional Hispanic Caucus; 2008 90% rating from Americans for Democratic Action and 0% from American Conservative Union [e]
- Bill Foster [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phil Hare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deborah "Debbie" Halvorson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Timothy V. Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mark Kirk [r]: U.S Representative (R-Illinois); Congressional Caucus on Bosnia; Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; U.S. Navy reserve intelligence officer with service in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and Bosnia; past World Bank's International Finance Corporation in 1990; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for inter-American Affairs at the U.S. State Department from 1992-93 [e]
- Daniel Lipinski [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Donald Manzullo [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Illinois); House Foreign Affairs Committee; House Financial Services Committee [e]
- Mike Quigley [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Illinois); U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Congressional Caucus on Bosnia [e]
- Peter J. Roskam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bobby L. Rush [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jan Schakowsky [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Illinois); House Democratic Leadership as Chief Deputy Whip and as a member of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee; Energy and Commerce Committee and Intelligence Committee; board, Americans for Democratic Action; member, Congressional Progressive Caucus;0% "true liberal" 2008 rating from American Conservative Union; Congressional Caucus on Bosnia; Co-Founder, Out of Iraq Caucus [e]
- Aaron Schock [r]: U.S. Representative R-Illinois), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Republican Study Committee [e]
- John Shimkus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Social, cultural, and educational
- University of Illinois [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of Chicago [r]: A private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. [e]
- Northwestern University [r]: Add brief definition or description
Industry and agriculture
- Principal crops and farming-related articles, industrial products, etc
Geographical and geological features
- Illinois River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lake Michigan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mississippi River [r]: Add brief definition or description
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Born in Illinois, President of the United States during the American Civil War. [e]
- Barack Obama [r]: (1961–) 44th President of the United States of America (2009-) and a former Senator from Illinois. [e]
Federal
- Argonne National Laboratory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [r]: Add brief definition or description
State history
- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Born in Illinois, President of the United States during the American Civil War. [e]
Other related topics
Associated U.S. states and Canadian provinces
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
