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Oil, Coal, and Stone
He was never the governor of Illinois. He was in the Illinois state senate for three terms, and then he became a U.S. senator.
Corn, wheat, and bad politics
There are three: the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Wabash.
There are three types of courts in the state of Illinois. The Supreme Court of the state has seven justices. The Appellate Court has 54 judges and the District Courts have 23 judicial circuits.
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District. Obama was sworn in as a US senator (for the state of Illinois) on January 3, 2005.
Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
He was, but he is not any more. His political career began when he became a state senator in the Illinois legislature, where he served for three terms, beginning in 1996; and then he was elected to the United States Senate in 2004.
He was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, and was elected two more times after that, for a total of three times. In 2004, he decided to run for the US senate, at which time, he left the Illinois state legislature to serve in Congress.
Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois
As the Tri-State part suggests, it hit three states: Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.