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The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
The fire eventually stopped after burning itself out, which was helped by rain that had started on the night of October 9. The fire killed around 300 people, burned 2,112 acres, and cost $222 million. The fire would spur Chicago and many other cities to enact new building codes to help prevent fires from breaking out and spreading as far. [15]
Paleogeographic reconstruction showing the Illinois Basin area during the Middle Devonian period. [9] Almost all Silurian rocks in Illinois are deep-water limestone and dolomite deposits; reef habitats were common, and fossils of reef organisms are locally highly abundant, including corals, brachiopods, crinoids, stromatoporoids, and bryozoans. [6]
The Shawnee Hills are often called the "Illinois Ozarks", especially in promotional literature for tourism. But they are technically not a part of The Ozarks , a geologically similar area that for the most part begins just to the west across the Mississippi River floodplain in southeastern Missouri .
After 1920, he also expanded his studies of Missouri geology with fieldwork conducted under the auspices of the Kentucky Geological Survey. [ 3 ] He assembled and published the first geological map of Illinois under the new Survey in 1906, a second edition in 1907, and another provisional geological map of Illinois in 1912.
Ozark is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Illinois, United States. Ozark is south of New Burnside . and has a post office with ZIP code 62972. [ 2 ] Ozark is also home to Camp Ondessonk , a Catholic youth camp that is run by the Diocese of Belleville .
The Shawnee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the Ozark and Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, United States. Administered by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, it consists of approximately 498,615 acres (2,100 km²) of federally managed lands.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2 ) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [ 3 ]