Illinois—
Illinois is home to many wonderful cities and towns, and
offers a lot of different fun destinations. One of my favorite places to visit,
Chicago, is located along shores of Lake Michigan in the northern part of the
state, and that makes for a great vacation spot! You can either do a quick
weekend trip to the Windy City, or turn your vacation into a week long
adventure, and really soak up the fun and history of this amazing city. There are several other places to visit
within this Midwestern state as well. If you’d like to plan a vacation to
Chicago, or any of the other cities in Illinois, contact me and I’ll help you
plan your visit!
State Facts-
The State Capital is
Springfield
State population (as of 2015) was 12,859,995
State Nickname- Prairie State
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Fun Facts-
The world’s first Skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance
Building, was built in Chicago in 1885.
Illinois is home to the world’s largest bottle of
catsup/Ketchup, a 170-feet tall water
tower located south of downtown Collinsville.
Illinois is the largest producer of pumpkins in the United States,
and Morton is the self-proclaimed “Pumpkin Capitol of the World”.
The official “state snack food” of Illinois is Popcorn. A group of elementary school students at
Cunningham Elementary in Joliet, with the help of their teacher, Fran
Hollister, petitioned state legistrators to make popcorn the official snack
food of Illinois, and State Senator Larry Walsh sponsored the bill. It was
passed in 2003.
The IATA airport code “ORD” for the O’Hare airport comes from the
original name of the airport “Orchard Field”.
The airport was renamed in honor of Lieutenant Commander Edward H O’Hare
in 1949.
Climate
The climate in Illinois varies widely throughout the year. Since
the state stretches nearly 400 miles from the northern border to the southern
tip, there is a wide variety of temperatures to be seen. The southern part of
the state has more moderate winters, averaging less than 14 inches of snow a
year, however the northern part of the state has a much colder and snowier
winter, averaging around 38 inches of snow in the Chicago area. Illinois also experiences a higher than
average amount of thunderstorms and the southern region of the state is in what
is considered “Tornado Alley” where some of the nation’s deadliest tornados
have occurred.
The highest recorded temperature was 117 degrees in East St. Louis
in 1954, and the lowest recorded temperature being -37 degrees in 2009 in
Rochelle.
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