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锘? New to Illinois? Considering buying real estate in Illinois? Still feel new to the Prairie State? Don't feel new Toby Alderweireld Belgien Trikot , but don't know squat about the Land of Lincoln? It's a state with very deep historic roots. Many of the most important groundbreaking events in the country and on the planet started, occurred, or landed in Illinois. Brush up your Illini lore and get acquainted with your chosen home, the Land of Lincoln. Put your seat belts on, strap on your life jackets, and grab a tasty Oreo and a cool drink from the diner car. Here's a myriad of well-known, not so well-known, and maybe a few not-so's to entertain and edify you. Illinois Firsts In 1883, the first aquarium opened in Chicago. The first McDonald's is in Des Plaines. The first Mormon Temple is in Nauvoo. The first round Silo for farm storage of silage was built on a farm in Spring Grove. Illinois was the first state to abolish slavery and ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. In 1885, the world's first skyscraper went up in Chicago, was ten stories high Simon Mignolet Belgien Trikot , and was the first to use an internal steel structure giving birth to the "Chicago skeleton" style of tall buildings. Chicago's Sears Tower at 1,705 feet is the tallest building on the North American continent. There is still some dispute to which is the tallest in the world. Taipei 101's building structure in Taiwan is technically taller than Sears, but Sears's antenna's still reach the highest. So far. The first nuclear fission reactor was built on a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago after Enrico Fermi and a small group of scientists and engineers showed that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps produced controlled heat. The Land and State Illinois got its name from a Native American word that means "tribe of superior men". Immense winter storms, deadly annual tornadoes, smothering heat, and bitter cold are the typical and diverse weather patterns Illinois is known for. Square dancing is the state dance. "State Sovereignty, National Union" is the state motto. "Illinois" is the state song and the state nickname is "The Prairie State". Illinois ranks sixth in the nation for population, third in the nation for interstate highway miles, and has more units of government than any other state in the union; over six thousand. "Land of Lincoln" was adopted as the state slogan by the General Assembly in 1955 and the state retains a copyright for the slogan's exclusive use. Chicago The Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station are the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Chicago's Mercy Hospital was the first hospital opened in the Prairie State. The epithet, "Windy City", was dubbed by Charles Dana Blank Belgien Trikot , a New York Sun editor because he was tired of hear Chicagoans boast about the world's Columbian Exposition in 1893. A bear cub was the first animal purchased for the Lincoln Park Zoo in 1874, thus the name origin for the Chicago Bears. The origina
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