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Illinois also has two counties named after the same person, New York governor DeWitt Clinton (DeWitt County, and Clinton County). Information on the FIPS county code , county seat , year of establishment, origin, etymology , population, area and map of each county is included in the table below.
Use a different map base that distinguishes between adjacent counties. 20:48, 19 April 2013: 3,453 × 6,157 (84 KB) Dewclouds: Fixed typo in source to add Randolph County. 18:58, 24 February 2007: 3,453 × 6,157 (84 KB) Dual Freq: This is a map highlighting Illinois counties without township government (Precincts not townships).
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:18, 2 February 2007: 3,453 × 6,157 (83 KB): Dual Freq: This is a map showing Illinois counties Modification of David Benbennick's map.
Painted hide with geometric motifs, attributed to the Illinois Confederacy by the French, pre-1800. Collections of the Musée du quai Branly.. The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of a loosely organized group of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]
The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.li.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...
The name and term "Kaskaskia" lives on in Illinois: The Kaskaskia River, whose headwaters are near Champaign in central Illinois, and whose mouth is near Ellis Grove, Illinois, is named for the native nation once settled throughout its estuarial plain. Kaskaskia College is located near Centralia, Illinois, in rural Clinton County.
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