General Knowledge
The number of Constitutions Illinois has had.
What is 4?
This Ordinance helped pave the way for IL statehood. (need the year as part of the answer)
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This is the main body of the legislative Branch
What is the General Assembly?
This is the year that the 26th Amendment was passed, giving 18 year-olds the right to vote.
What is 1971?
In Mayor-and-Council form, this position is the Chief Executive officer of the city.
What is the Mayor?
The number of Capitals Illinois has had.
What is 3?
This Article sets up voting qualifications and election laws.
What is Article 3?
The number of districts in Illinois.
The amount of time you must live in an election district in order to vote in that district.
What is 30 days?
There are this many counties in IL.
What is 102?
The year the Illinois was admitted into the Union
What is 1818?
This article established the state's public school system.
What is article 10?
The governor has three types of vetoes: The regular, the amendatory veto, and this type.
What is the reduction veto?
What is turn 18 years old?
This group is a type of government that oversees every county.
What is a county board?
This man led the last great Indian uprising in Illinois.
Who is Chief Black Hawk?
This man in the 1900s called for a Constitutional Convention in Illinois for more than 20 years, eventually getting his way and being named as President of the Convention.
Who is Samuel Witwer?
This executive branch office is responsible for issuing drivers' licenses and registering and licensing businesses in IL.
What is the Secretary of State?
In 2008, voters were asked if they wanted to call for a constitutional convention, write a new constitution, or make changes to the old one. Per the IL constitution, this is required to happen every this number of years.
What is 20 years?
The Illinois Lottery makes up this percentage of the typical Illinois budget.
What is 3%?
This man led American Militia into Illinois territory during the American Revolution and captured the villages of Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
Who is George Rogers Clark?
The article on the Executive branch outlines the powers and duties of what 6 state-elected offices?
What are the governor, lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the comptroller, and the treasurer?
These are the five districts that the 13 state appellate courts are in.
This percentage of 9.8 million registered IL voters turned out for the 2016 election.
What is 61.9%?
She was the first female mayor of Chicago.
Who was Jane Byrne?