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Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. An early Illinois women's suffrage organization was created by Susan Hoxie Richardson in 1855 in Earlville, Illinois. [132] Women in Illinois helped the war effort during the Civil War. [132]
Over the years, several attempts have been made to name a state after one of the Founding Fathers or other great statesmen of U.S. history: the State of Franklin, the State of Jefferson (three separate attempts), the State of Lincoln (two separate attempts), and the State of Washington; in the end, only Washington materialized (Washington ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
The American Railway Union escalated the Pullman strike beginning with the blockade of the Grand Crossing in Chicago during the night of June 26, 1894. Many of the Pullman factory workers joined the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V. Debs , which supported their strike by launching a boycott in which ARU members refused to run ...
Oskee-Wow-Wow (along with "Illinois Loyalty") is the official fight song of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [1] The song was written in 1910 by two students, Harold Vater Hill, Class of 1911 (1889–1917), credited with the music, and Howard Ruggles Green, Class of 1912 (1890–1969), credited with the lyrics.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump took a shot at Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker during a rally Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, reigniting a public feud between the two politicians ahead of the primaries in ...
[5] On remand, the Illinois Supreme Court sent the case back to the Illinois Appellate Court. The Appellate Court ruled per curiam on July 11, 1977 that the swastika was not protected by the First Amendment. [28] [29] In other words, the NSPA could march, but they could not display the swastika during their march. [30] [31]
New York City health officials drive throughout Dyker Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., on August 28, 2024, spraying a pesticide in the air to combat West Nile virus.