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Map of the United States with Illinois highlighted. Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km 2) of land. [1]
The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
The median income for a household in the city was $44,239 and the median income for a family was $59,930, and Married-couples families had a median income of $90,409. The per capita income for the city was $26,877. 25.1% of the population. Out of the total people living in poverty, 23.2% were between 18 and 64 years old.
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,899. [1] Its county seat is Carlyle. [2] In 1960, the United States Census Bureau placed the mean center of U.S. population in Clinton County. [3] Clinton County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Belvidere / ˈ b ɛ l v ɪ d ɪər / is a city in and the county seat of Boone County, Illinois, United States.It is settled on the Kishwaukee River in far northern Illinois.Known as the 'City of Murals', Belvidere is home to several public art installations throughout the North and South State Street historic districts, which are on the National Register of Historic Places.
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Rushville have ranged from a low of 15 °F (−9 °C) in January to a high of 87 °F (31 °C) in July, although a record low of −26 °F (−32 °C) was recorded in February 1905 and a record high of 113 °F (45 °C) was recorded in July 1936.
The city of Rockford, Illinois's third-largest city and center of the state's fourth largest metropolitan area, sits along Interstates 39 and 90 some 75 mi (121 km) northwest of Chicago. The Quad Cities region, located along the Mississippi River in northern Illinois, had a population of 381,342 in 2011.