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USS [a] Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class fast battleship that was laid down for the United States Navy during World War II in the 1940s, although she would not be completed. The Navy had initially planned on building four of the Iowa s and then developing a new, more powerful ship for what was to be BB-65.
USS Illinois (BB-7) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Illinois class, and was the second ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for the 21st state. Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, and she was launched in October 1898.
Plan and profile drawing of the Illinois class. The ships of the Illinois class were 368 feet (112 m) long at the waterline and 374 ft (114 m) long overall. They had a beam of 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m) and a draft of 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m). They displaced 11,565 long tons (11,751 t) as designed and up to 12,250 long tons (12,450 t) at full load.
Illinois Fighting Illini: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Urbana, Champaign [b] Big Ten: FBS: UIC Flames [c] University of Illinois Chicago: Chicago: Missouri Valley: Illinois State Redbirds: Illinois State University: Normal: Missouri Valley: FCS [d] Loyola Ramblers: Loyola University Chicago: Chicago: Atlantic 10: Northern Illinois ...
USS Illinois (SSN-786) is a Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine in the United States Navy. Named for the State of Illinois , she is the third vessel with the name, the previous two being battleships BB-7 and BB-65 , which was never completed.
The 2005 Class A state title resulted in the only forfeiture of a state boys basketball title in Illinois history. The title game resulted in a victory for Chicago's Hales Franciscan High School over Winnebago. It was the second year in a row Winnebago had lost in the final game, and was the second time in three years that Hales Franciscan had won.
[1] [2] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [3] The ILCS took effect in 1993, replacing the previous numbering scheme generally known as the Illinois Revised Statutes (Ill. Rev. Stat.), the latest of which had been adopted in 1874 but appended by private publishers since. [3]
The Secretary of State maintains the style manual for the Illinois Administrative Code and Illinois Register on its website. [4] One notable feature of the Code and Register text is the use of italics (or, in less recently updated sections, all caps) to indicate that a particular set of words is quoting or closely summarizing statutory text; a reference to the relevant section of the Illinois ...