Illinois Symbols
The Illinois state animal.
What is the White Tailed Deer.
Which President of the United States was born in Illinois?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What is Chicago's nickname?
What is 'The Windy City'?
In what year did Illinois become the 21st U.S. state?
What is 1818.
How many NFL Championships have the Chicago Bears won?
What is nine.
The Illinois state snack.
What is popcorn.
George and Jacob Donner of the Donner Party were from what Illinois town?
What is Springfield.
What city is the capital of Illinois?
What is Springfield.
Chicago was the ______ leading war supplier during the Civil War.
What is 2nd.
Why is Chicago also called the "Second City"?
What is 'it started as a derogatory term designating Chicago as second to New York'?
The Illinois state insect.
What is the Monarch Butterfly.
What do the names Peoria, Kaskaskia, Tamaroa, Cahokia and Michigamea have in common?
What are the names of Indian tribes that formed the Illini Confederation?
Route 66 ran through the heartland of Illinois, connecting Chicago with St. Louis. Can you name the Illinois segment of Route 66 was called prior to being named Route 66?
What is The Pontiac Trail?
What happened in 1871 that attributed to approximately 300 deaths in one day?
What is The Great Chicago Fire?
Illinois leads all other US states in the amount of electricity that it generates from what type of fuel?
What is nuclear power.
The Illinois state bird.
What is the Cardinal?
During the Civil War which engineer designed ironclad ships that were built on the banks of the Ohio River in Mound City.
Who is James Buchannan Eads.
*Eads is also famous for the arch bridge over the Mississippi that connects St. Louis and East St. Louis.
What town is home to Magnolia Manor, The Old Custom House, Fort Defiance, and numerous other sites, and is also bound on the east by the Ohio River and on the west by the Mississippi River?
What is Cairo?
The First American scientist to win a Nobel Prize taught at the University of Chicago - who was it?
Who is A. A. Michelson?
What date did the lights come on at Wrigley Field?
August 8th, 1988
*The game was later called off on account of rain. The first official night game took place August 9th.
The Illinois state reptile.
What is the Painted Turtle.
John Lloyd Wright's The J. L. Wright Manufacturing Company, was the first to produce which children's building toy?
What are Lincoln Logs.
*It is also interesting the John Lloyd Wright is the son of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Located on the banks of the Ohio River in Hardin County, this site has been home to outlaws, river pirates, counterfeiters, horse thieves and an assortment of many different undesirable characters. Today it is an Illinois State Park. What is its name?
What is Cave-in-Rock.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in 1865. What claim to that does Illinois have?
How did Chicago solve the problems with pollution in Lake Michigan that affected the drinking water?
What is they reversed the flow of the Chicago River.