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U.S. Bureau of Land Management map showing the principal meridians of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The fourth principal meridian, set in 1815, [1] is the principal meridian for land surveys in northwestern Illinois and west-central Illinois, [2] and its 1831 [3] extension is the principal meridian for land surveys in Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota.
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Overall map of system: freeways in ... and 29 are found in north-central Illinois, while routes 53, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 68 and 72 are all found in northeastern ...
Bloomington–Normal, officially known as the Bloomington, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Central Illinois anchored by the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.
The Rockford Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in north-central Illinois, anchored by the city of Rockford. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 349,431 (though a 2011 estimate placed the population at 348,360). [2]
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
The land that is now Wheeling, Illinois, was controlled by the Miami Confederacy (which contained the Illini and Kickapoo tribes) starting in the early 1680s. The Confederacy was driven from the area by the Iroquois and Meskwaki in the early 1700s. The French-allied Potawatomi began to raid and take possession of Northern Illinois in the 1700s ...
CR 30 (West County Line Road) CR 6 (Shabbona Road) Lee Road — — CR 24 — — West DeKalb–Ogle county line (West County Line Road) CR 6 (Rollo Road) Chicago Road — — CR 26 — — IL 72: CR 21 (Cherry Valley Road) Five Points Road — — CR 27 — — IL 23: CR 12 (Somonauk Road) Barber Greene Road — — CR 29 — — IL 72: North ...