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Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL. What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time.
Coles County was organized by on December 25, 1830, from Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, [3] the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826. The majority of the American settlers who founded Coles County were either from the six New England states, or were born in upstate New York to parents who had moved to that region from New England shortly after the American ...
The tornado was the deadliest tornado ever to hit in the month of December in Texas, and one of the deadliest December tornadoes to hit the United States on record, alongside the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado, the 1957 Gorham-Murphysboro, Illinois tornado, the 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado, the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado, and the 2015 Holly ...
— NWS Mount Holly (@NWS_MountHolly) February 11, 2025. ... The current favored area for the highest snow totals is currently near and north of Pontiac, Illinois, to the Valparaiso, Indiana line. ...
(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court is considering whether to find a state firearms statute prohibiting open carry unconstitutional in the case Illinois v. Tyshon Thompson. Thompson ...
Iowa and much of Illinois lie within an area called the prairie peninsula, an eastward extension of prairies that borders conifer and mixed forests to the north, and hardwood deciduous forests to the east and south. [citation needed] Geographers subdivide the Interior Plains into the Interior Lowlands and the Great Plains on the basis of elevation.
Illinois Route 33 passes through the center of the city as Main Street, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to Palestine near the Indiana border and west 24 miles (39 km) to Newton. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Robinson has a total area of 4.76 square miles (12.33 km 2 ), of which 4.70 square miles (12.17 km 2 ) (or 98.72%) is land ...
Adams is a census-designated place in Burton Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States. Adams is about 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Quincy . Adams was laid out in 1838.