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.
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That's So Raven Season One: "Mother Dearest Party Animal Test of Friendship Wake Up Victor A Fish Called Raven Smell of Victory Campaign in the Neck Saving Psychic Raven The Parties Ye Olde Dating Game Dissin' Cousins Teach Your Children Well Driven to Insanity A Dog by Any Other Name Saturday Afternoon Fever A Fight at the Opera Psychics Wanted If I Only Had a Job Escape Claus Separation Anxiety To See or Not to See Season Two: "Out of Control Don't Have a Cow Run, Raven, Run Clothes Minded Four's a Crowd Hearts and Minds Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind That's So NOT Raven Blue in the Face Spa Day Afternoon Leave it to Diva There Goes the Bride Radio Heads A Goat's Tale He's Got the Power Skunk'd The Dating Shame The Road to Audition The Lying Game Numb and Number My Big Fat Pizza Party Shake, Rattle, and Rae Season Three: "Psychic Eye for the Sloppy Guy Stark Raven Mad Opportunity Shocks Taken to the Cleaners Five Finger Discount Sweeps Double Vision Bend it Like Baxter The Big Buzz True Colors Dog Day Aftergroom Royal Treatment Art Breaker Boyz 'N Commotion Gettin' Outta Dodge On Top of Old Oakey They Work Hard for His Honey Mind Your Business Hizzouse Party Mismatch Maker Chef-Man and Raven When in Dome Too Much Pressure Extreme Cory The Grill Next Door Point of No Return Country Cousins Food for Thought Mr. Perfect Goin' Hollywood Save the Last Dance Cake Fear Vision Impossible The Four Aces Season Four: "Raven, Sydney and the Man Pin Pals Dues and Don'ts Unhappy Medium Adventures in Boss Sitting Hook Up My Space Driving Miss Lazy Be Prepared Juicer Consequences Sister Act Checkin' Out Fur Better or Worse Mad Hot Cotillion When 6021 Met 4267 Soup to Nuts Members Only The Ice Girl Cometh Rae of Sunshine The Dress is Always Greener Teacher's Pet The Way We Were Where There's Smoke
Raven's Home Season One: "Baxter's Back Big Trouble in Little Apartment The Baxters Get Bounced The Bearer of Dad News You're Gonna Get It Adventures in Mommy-Sitting Dancing Tween Vending the Rules In-vision of Privacy Fears of a Clown The Baxtercism of Levi Grayson Dream Moms Vest in Show Season Two: "The Falcon and the Raven Because Cop To It Weirder Things The Missteps All Sewn Up Oh Father, Where Art Thou? The Trouble with Levi Head Over Wheels The Most Interesting Mom in the World Sleevemore Part One: Frozen Sleevemore Part Two: Found Sleevemore Part Three: Future Raven's Home: Remix Switch-or-Treat Just Call Me Vic New Dog, Old Trick It's Your Party and I'll Spy If I Want To Winners and Losers Keepin' It Real Season Three: "Friend-Ship Lost at Chel-Sea Smoky Flow Twister, Sister Dress to Express Diss Track Disorder in the Court School House Trap Cali Dreams Creepin' It Real Girls Just Wanna Have Phones Friday Night Tights It's Not Easy Being Green Crewed Up Sorry to Father You Bah Humbugged The Foreign Identity What About Your Friends? Adolessons Close Shave Hoop Streams Slammed On Edge The Story So-Fa In-Shoe-encer Level Up Season Four: "Raven About Bunk'd Don't Trust the G in Apt 4B Baking Bad Big Little Surprise Sharp Job-jects How I Met Your Mentor Mad About Yuletide Wheel of Misfortune Diff'rent Strikes Fresh Off the Note 10 Things Debate About You Plays of Our Lives The Slumber Years Bless This Tess American Torah Story Say Yes to the Protest Saved by the Belle So You Think You Can Drive Season Five: "The Wrong Victor The Big Sammich Escape From Pal-Catraz A Streetcar Named Conspire Clique Bait 21 Lunch Street Retreat Yourself New Kid on the Chopping Block Mr. Petracelli's Revenge Date Expectations The Great Chill Grill Giveaway Truth or Hair Munch Ado About Lunching To Halve & Halve Not The Fierce Awakens The Grand Booker-Pest Hotel The Girl Who Cried Tasha Tying the Astro-Knot Keeping It 100 Stylin' & Profilin' Big Burger, Small Fry Raven and the Fashion Factory A Day Without Baxters Bridge Over Troubled Daughter A Country Cousin Christmas Season Six: "European Rae-cation Sold to the Highest Fibber Blues Beard's Revenge Tess Friends Forever A.I., A.I., Oh… Snap! Lizard Let Lie Ain't That a Sidekick in the Head What Had Happened Was… Sneaks and Geeks Reality Check Working for the Weekend Drop It Like It's Hot! Raven's Clone Cuda I Have This Dance? You've Got Sale Gown to the Wire Whose Line is it Anyway?
