Illinois

Illinois is a U.S. state that is the 25th most extensive and fifth most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. Its state capital is Springfield and its largest city is Chicago. It borders the Great Lakes to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south.
Illinois has a broad economic base, with small industrial cities, great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, as well as natural resources, such as coal, timber, and petroleum, in the south. Illinois is also a major transportation hub. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. 
Although the state's largest population centers today are in northern Illinois, the state's population originally grew from south to north, with settlers arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads and John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars. The Great Migration established a large community of African Americans in Chicago that created the city's famous jazz and blues cultures.
==Films and shows==
*Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
*Christmas...Again?!
*Dick Tracy
*Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (cave-in rock only)
*Eternals
*The Empty Man
*Genius
*I Didn't Do It
*Ironheart
*Loki - "1893"
*Max Keeble's Big Move (mentioned)
*Moon Knight
*Raven's Home (Seasons 1-4)
*The Santa Clause
*The Santa Clause 2
*The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
*Saturdays
*Shake It Up
*Something Wicked This Way Comes
*Teacher's Pet: The Movie (mentioned)
*Tron: Uprising
*Twitches
*Twitches Too
==Cities and locations==
*Springfield (capital)
*Chicago
*Evanston
==People born in Illinois==
*Scott Adsit
*Patricia Arquette
*Peter Bartlett
*Jim Belushi
*Chloe Bennet
*Beck Bennett
*Jodi Benson
*Tom Bosley
*Bruce Boxleitner
*Ray Bradbury
*Hedy Burress
*Edgar Rice Burroughs
*Frank Caliendo
*Liz Callaway
*Danielle Campbell
*Ken Hudson Campbell
*Darleen Carr
*Dan Castellaneta
*Chance the Rapper
*Brenda Chapman
*Parvesh Cheena
*Greg Chun
*Larry Clemmons
*Gary Cole
*Common
*Gino Conforti
*John Cusack
*Frankie Darro
*Lea DeLaria
*Barry Dennen
*Mike Disa
*Roy O. Disney
*Walt Disney
*Michael Clarke Duncan
*Colton Dunn
*Nora Dunn
*Roger Ebert
*Buddy Ebsen
*Nathan Engelhardt
*Rex Everhart
*Ben Falcone
*Zehra Fazal
*Neil Flynn
*Harrison Ford
*Cassidy Freeman
*Crispin Freeman
*Kathleen Freeman
*Paul Frees
*Stephen Full
*Jim Gaffigan
*Aimee Garcia
*Jeff Garlin
*Ed Gilbert
*Douglas Bruce Green
*Kathy Griffin
*Mike Hagerty
*Don Hahn
*Kathryn Hahn
*Daryl Hannah
*Sean Hayes
*Charlton Heston
*Terrence Howard
*Lil Rel Howery
*Jennifer Hudson
*Bonnie Hunt
*Tino Insana
*Burl Ives
*Christopher Jackson
*Wilfred Jackson
*Peter Jacobson
*Fred Joerger
*T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
*Harvey Korman
*Irwin Kostal
*Lauren Lapkus
*Thomas Lennon
*Mel Leven
*Samm Levine
*Jack Lindquist
*Steve Little
*Hamilton Luske
*Jane Lynch
*Justina Machado
*Fred MacMurray
*Karl Malden
*John Malkovich
*Joe Mantegna
*Kenneth Mars
*Junius Matthews
*Chi McBride
*Melissa McCarthy
*Frances McDormand
*Laurie Metcalf
*Joseph Michael Miskulin
*Kel Mitchell
*Cindy Morgan
*Jennifer Morrison
*John Mulaney
*Martin Mull
*Bill Murray
*Brian Doyle-Murray
*Joel Murray
*John Musker
*Lucas Neff
*Bob Newhart
*Nichelle Nichols
*Matthew O'Callaghan
*Chris O'Donnell
*Jim O'Heir
*Michelle Obama
*Bob Odenkirk
*Nick Offerman
*Wyatt Oleff
*Keke Palmer
*David Pasquesi
*Perce Pearce
*Paula Pell
*Michael Peña
*Busy Philipps
*Frank V. Phillips
*Edward H. Plumb
*Danny Pudi
*Kevin Quinn
*Christopher Ragland
*Betsy Randle
*Ronald Reagan
*John C. Reilly
*Rob Renzetti
*Salli Richardson
*Jason Robards
*Craig Robinson
*Freddy Rodriguez
*Gina Rodriguez
*Hayden Rolence
*Roger Rose
*David Rudman
*Gary Rydstrom
*Michael Rye
*Herbert Ryman
*Pat Sajak
*Tommy Sands
*Ben Savage
*Fred Savage
*Avery Schreiber
*Stefanie Scott
*Garry Shandling
*Sherri Shepherd
*Kiernan Shipka
*June Squibb
*Thomas O. Staggs
*Todd Stashwick
*David Ogden Stiers
*Patrick Stump
*Keith Szarabajka
*Mr. T
*Jill Talley
*Lauren Tom
*A.J. Trauth
*Dink Trout
*Steve Vinovich
*Lena Waithe
*Jason Weaver
*Pete Wentz
*Betty White
*Gary Anthony Williams
*Robin Williams
*Sam Witwer
*Jaboukie Young-White
*Billy Zane
*Robert Zemeckis
==Gallery==
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