Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, IL

a Midwest state in north-central United States

• American state — one of the 50 states of the United States

• Carbondale — a town in southern Illinois
• Champaign — a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
• Chicago, Windy City — largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
• Decatur — a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here
• East Saint Louis — a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
• Moline — a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
• Peoria — a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River
• Rockford — a city in northern Illinois
• Rock Island — a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the Civil War
• Springfield, capital of Illinois — capital of the state of Illinois
• Urbana — a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign
• Illinois River — a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River

• Midwest, Middle West — the north central region of the United States