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IL

IL

30 1.4
A US state in the Midwest
  • noun
: IL
  • The conference is being held in Springfield, IL, next month.

You know, I'm from Rockford, IL, you know, my parents are from Ghana and West Africa.

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Examples

  • Hi, my name is Catherine and I'm from Wheeling, IL just outside of Chicago.

  • I'm in a town called Frankfort, IL, which is a SW suburb of Chicago.

  • I mean, Reagan was born there at Lincoln, IL and you know what else?

  • Next is from Amy in Columbia, IL Oh, look at that color combination.

  • We're from Chicago, IL Good mythical morning.

  • So Carter Glass, Chicago, IL kids in the stocks and bonds.

  • There was a woman who had a book in Rockford, IL Yeah.

  • I grew up in Wheaton, IL so I was born close to there with my mom in the room.

  • Springfield, IL drove up quite a ways.

  • And then when I got out, we moved to to Chicago, to Evanston, IL, which sort of Northwestern is.

Synonyms

Illinois
vsIL
567 1.0

A US state in the Midwest with the city Chicago and different landscapes

is the shortened form used instead of the full state name
Prairie State
vsIL
  • US
2 4.7

A nickname for the state of Illinois because of its wide prairie land

names the state without the landscape-based nickname connotation
1 4.4

A nickname for Illinois in the United States because Abraham Lincoln lived there

is the neutral official designation rather than a historic nickname

Idioms

comme il faut
  • Formal
1 9.9

Proper and polite in a way accepted by society

Compounds

Il Duce
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A name people use to compare a political leader to Mussolini as a dictator

1 9.9

The title used by Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945

Surface Forms

IL singular
ILs plural

Etymology

IL is the US postal abbreviation for Illinois, taken from the state's name as a short form used on addresses and forms. That's why you see IL after a city name on mail and in lists of places.