illinois

Area	57,918 square miles
Population	12,419,293
Major Cities and their Mayors	Chicago (2,853,114) Richard M. Daley Aurora (171,782) Tom Weisner Rockford (157,272) Lawrence Morrissey Joliet (146,125) Arthur Shultz Naperville (143,117) George Pradel Springfield (117,352) Timothy Davlin Peoria (114,114) Jim Ardis
Major Industries	Agriculture (corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, barley, rye, sorghum), cattle, manufacturing, mining
State Capitol (Seat of government)	Springfield
Governor	Pat Quinn
U.S. Senators	Roland W. Burris - (D) Richard J. Durbin - (D)
U.S. House of Representatives	Bobby L. Rush (D) Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D) Dan Lipinski (D) Luis V. Gutierrez (D) Rahm Emanuel (D) Peter Roskam (R) Danny K. Davis (D) Melissa L. Bean (D) Janice Schakowsky (D) Mark Steven Kirk (R) Jerry Weller (R) Jerry F. Costello (D) Judy Biggert (R) Bill Foster (D) Timothy V. Johnson (R) Donald Manzullo (R) Phil Hare (D) Ray LaHood (R) John Shimkus (R)
Secretary of State	Jesse White
Attorney General	Lisa Madigan
State Assembly Representatives	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_House_of_Representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Senate
State Counties	Douglas, DuPage,Edgar,Edwards,Effingham,Fayette Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy,Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, La Salle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Macon, Macoupin ,Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason Massac, Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph Richland, Rock Island, St. Clair, Saline Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside Will, Williamson, Winnebago, Woodford
State Supreme Court	Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Chief Justice Charles E. Freeman, Robert R. Thomas, Thomas L. Kilbride, Rita B. Garman, Lloyd A. Karmeier, Anne M. Burke
IL Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals	Frank H. EASTERBROOK, Chief Justice William J. BAUER, Richard D. CUDAHY Richard A. POSNER, John L. COFFEY, Joel M. FLAUM, Kenneth F. RIPPLE Daniel A. MANION, Michael S. KANNE Ilana Diamond ROVNER, Diane P. WOOD, Terence T. EVANS, Ann Claire WILLIAMS Diane S. SYKES, John Daniel TINDER David F. HAMILTON
Major Newspapers	Chicago - Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times Aurora - The Beacon News Rockford - Rockford Register Star Joliet - The Herald News Naperville - Naperville Sun Springfield - The State Journal-Register Peoria - Peoria Journal Star
Major television networks	ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News, PBS
Local issues	[To be posted.]
Landmarks/images	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Home_National_Historic_Site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Log_Cabin_State_Historic_Site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main,_Knox_College (The best preserved site of one of the 1858 senatorial debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. It has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Jones_Laboratory (The laboratory that first isolated plutonium and determined its atomic mass.)
2010 Senate and House races	[To be posted]
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illinois

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