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The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area is on both sides of the Mississippi River separating Illinois from Iowa. The Illinois side includes Henry County, Mercer County, and Rock Island County. [4] In extreme northwestern Illinois the Driftless Zone, a region of unglaciated and therefore higher and more rugged topography, occupies a small part of the ...
Edwards River; Elm River; Embarras River (Illinois) Fox River (Illinois River tributary), northern Illinois; Fox River (Little Wabash tributary), southern Illinois; Galena River; Grand Calumet River; Green River; Henderson Creek; Hickory Creek; Illinois River; Indian Creek; Iroquois River; Jackson Creek; Kankakee River; Kaskaskia River ...
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
La Moine River; Leaf River (Illinois) Lick Creek (Sangamon River tributary) Little Mackinaw River; Little Marys River (Illinois) Little Menominee River; Little Muddy River (Illinois) Little Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary) Little Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary) Little Wabash River; Lusk Creek
Burle (north wind which blows in the winter in south-central France) Cers (strong, very dry northeasterly wind in the bas-Languedoc region in southern France) Cierzo (cool north/northwesterly wind on Ebro Valley in Spain) Crivăț (strong, very cold north-easterly wind in Moldavia, Dobruja, and the Bărăgan Plain parts of Romania.)
The Kankakee River heads near South Bend, then flows westward into Illinois, where it joins with the Des Plaines River to form the Illinois. The area of Lake County (Indiana) which originally drained to Lake Michigan but now drains by means of artificial diversion to the Illinois River is not considered to be part of the Kankakee River Basin ...
Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of thunderstorm days for the United States. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 54 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 9.7 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually.
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