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The Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area is located in the central region of the state and is composed of Champaign, Ford, and Piatt counties. [ 5 ] Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
The location of the state of Illinois in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois. Prehistory of Illinois. Indigenous peoples. Mississippian culture. Cahokia; French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1763; Upper Louisiana was called Illinois Country. Treaty of Paris of 1763
This is a list of the area codes in the state of Illinois and its numbering plan areas in the North American Numbering Plan.. All NPAs within Illinois. 217/447: Central Illinois, including the region running west from the Illinois-Indiana border through Danville, Effingham, Champaign–Urbana, Decatur, Springfield, Quincy until Illinois' western border with Missouri and Iowa
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 14 combined statistical areas, 12 metropolitan statistical areas, and 21 micropolitan statistical areas in Illinois. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA , comprising the area around Illinois' largest city, Chicago .
Illinois 2020 Population Density Map. Illinois is the most populous state in the Midwest region. Chicago, the third-most populous city in the United States, is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area or Chicagoland, as this area is nicknamed.
Merle K. Anderson (1904–1982), farmer and Illinois state representative, was born in Laona Township. [ 6 ] Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940), social reformer and activist, born in Laona Township.