Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history of Illinois. Illustrated list of events and people from our today in history archives.
- Chicago
1901-04-24 First game in baseball's American League: Chicago...
- Springfield, IL
1908-08-14 Race riot in Springfield, Illinois; White mob...
- Evanston
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history...
- Arlington Heights
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history...
- Rock Island
Events in Rock Island History. 1855-04-21 1st train crosses...
- Chicago
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.
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.
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.
9 Νοε 2009 · After the American Revolution, Illinois became a territory of the United States and achieved statehood in 1818. Located on Lake Michigan, and connected to the eastern ports via the Erie Canal,...
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 ...
CHRONOLOGY OF ILLINOIS HISTORY. 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.
