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illinois

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The Illinois was a fireboat operated by the Chicago Fire Department . She was commissioned in 1888, and she was then described as the most powerful fireboat afloat. She was one of the first fireboats to have a steel hull at a time when other fireboats were ...

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Illinois \Il`li*nois"\, n. sing. & pl. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

Usage examples of illinois.

Since then I have listened to advocates of national renown in our great court and in the Senate sitting as a High Court of Impeachment, but at no time or place have I heard an abler, more scholarly, or more eloquent argument than that of Judge Arrington in the old court-room at Ottawa, Illinois, on that day long gone by.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.

He experienced autoscopy in eighteen sixty, shortly before he left Springfield, Illinois, for Washington.

Two orange-yellow Illinois licence plates with the letters bdr 528 hang over the bar.

Project Gutenberg should be carried out via Illinois Benedictine College unless via email.

The just indignation of an outraged and deeply injured people will teach the Illinois Ape to repeat his race and retrace his journey across the borders of the Free Negro States still more rapidly than he came.

Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.

The Cades of Illinois and the McCrays of Kentucky had engaged in a blood feud from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War II.

The chief sighed and launched into a brief account of the Cade-McCray feud, how Alvy McCray had initiated assaults on various Cades, and how most people on the Illinois side of the dispute were not about to say anything that would help one of their Kentucky enemies.

Under protest they acceded to the pressures of the Pond Bureau to work the Chautauqua circuit in August in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.

The name Chula Dolson brought up forty hits, mostly from Illinois papers and television stations.

The Committee had several contests to deal with besides the important Illinois case.

Once more united with Tonty at Michilimackinac, La Salle returned dauntlessly to the Illinois.

The second gentleman I have avoided because he is officially in Chicago, closing a major Eurobond deal with Continental Illinois, while in fact he is booked in at the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco with his mistress.