1. Illinois Details By Gail Lovely

2. What first took place in Illinois at the University of Chicago in 1942?

3. What was Abraham Lincoln’s first public office? Where did he hold this office?

4. What were the NFL Chicago Bears known as before they were the Chicago Bears?

5. On October 7, 1997, the Chicago City Council absolved who of all guilt?

6. What is the highest point of land in Illinois? How high is it?

7. This is a tool for learning or practicing facts or other recall.

8. The first nuclear fission reaction. Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

9. Lincoln served as Postmaster in New Salem Illinois.

10. The NFL's Chicago Bears were first known as the "Staley Bears". They were organized in 1920, in Decatur.

11. Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow!

12. The highest point in Illinois is Charles Mound at 1235 feet above sea level.