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Offers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in Illinois history. Around 5000 BCE, native American tribes hunt in the Illinois region. By 650 B.C. they have establish the settlement of Chahokia. The civilization vanishes around 1400 for unknown reasons.
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history of Illinois. Illustrated list of events and people from our today in history archives.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
Present-day Illinois was inhabited by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years. The French were the first Europeans to arrive, settling near the Mississippi and Illinois River in the 17th century as part of the sprawling colony of New France. Following U.S. independence in 1783, American settlers began arriving from Kentucky via the Ohio River.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS | 321 20,000-8,000 B.C. — Paleo-Indians migrate to Illinois. They gather wild plants and hunt animals, including the giant bison, wooly mammoth and mastodon. 8,000-1,000 B.C. — During the Archaic Period, Illinois inhabitants cultivate plants and cre-ate specialized tools for hunting and fishing.
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has ...
9 Νοε 2009 · Illinois became a territory of the United States and achieved statehood in 1818. During Prohibition, Chicago became synonymous with bootleg liquor and gangsters like Al Capone.
