Illinois
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- proper noun
- /ˌɪlɪˈnɔɪ/
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Illinois
- Let's listen to the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker.
- University of Illinois
- Chicago, Illinois
- State of Illinois
Tell me about your life from Illinois seven years ago.
- Tell me about your life from Illinois seven years ago.
- He's taught at the University of Illinois and at Cornell.
- Taylor Look, my man, Illinois is a good football team, bro.
- Sadler got his PhD at Southern Illinois University.
- Banks, either you'd have like unit banks in places like Illinois where they couldn't have branches.
- And it was in the middle of North Central Illinois, near a town called Tonica.
- And who did they find but a young, impressionable farm boy from Illinois named Clyde Tombaugh.
- They took over Nova, Illinois, which didn't succeed.
Examples
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Daddy was born in Skokie, Illinois.
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Do I have to pay income taxes to both the states of Illinois and Georgia?
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OK, where I grew up in West Central Illinois, it was Farm King.
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Project partners also include the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Information Institute at Florida State University.
Academic text (2011) -
You must be licensed to practice law in Illinois, and you must be invited.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm from the University of Illinois.
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She was raised in Illinois, right outside of Chicago.
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The heart of that part of the state lies between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.
Fiction book (1992) -
He's taught at the University of Illinois and at Cornell.
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The famous city of Chicago is located in the state of Illinois.
Synonyms
A nickname for the state of Illinois because of its wide prairie land
A nickname for Illinois in the United States because Abraham Lincoln lived there
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Illinois for the state comes from the name given by Native people and written down by French explorers as Illiniwek, which means 'the people' or 'men'. So the state was named after the group of people who first lived there.