Exploring Illinois

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Exploring Illinois

• By
• Mrs. Slonneger

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The Prairie State Symbols
State Seal
Illinois State Flag
State Animal white-tailed deer
State flower - violet
State bird - cardinal
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Just the Facts

• Geographic Region
• Midwest
• Current Capital
• Springfield
• Former Capitals
• Kaskaskia
• Vandalia

Old State Capitol in Springfield
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Environment

• Landforms
• Plains
• Water
• Mississippi River
• Natural resources
• Fertile soil - crops of corn soybeans
• Coal petroleum
• Timber

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Important People of Illinois

• Important men
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Important women
• Jane Addams
• Frances Willard

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Bibliography

• Learn Illinois, At Home in the Heartland
  Online. Available Online http//www.state.il.us
  /kids/learn/default.htm. February 7, 2002.
• Illinois, Stately Knowledge, The Internet
  Public Library. Available Online
  http//www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/il1.html.
  February 7, 2002.
• Abraham Lincoln on Preserving Liberty, Abraham
  Lincoln Online. Available Online
  http//showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sp
  eeches/liberty.htm. February 7, 2002.