ILLINOIS

3 FACTS ABOUT ILLINOIS

• The Chicago Public Library is the world's largest public library with a collection of more than 2 million books.
• Chicago is home to the Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
• In Mount Pulaski, Illinois, it is illegal for boys (and only boys) to hurl snowballs at trees. Girls are allowed to do that however.

LOCATION

• Absolute location- 40* N & 89* W
• It is southwest of Minnesota
• It is southeast of Quebec Canada
• It is northwest of The Bahamas
• It borders Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, an Indiana

Place
Physical characteristics
Goat Cliff
Round Bluff

Place
Human Characteristics
Chicago water tower
Capital building in Springfield

MOVEMENT

• Subways in Chicago transport people through the city
• Taxis/buses bringing people around the state/country

H-E INTERACTION

• Humans affecting
• Factories- There blowing all that pollution into the air
• Environment affecting
• Diseases or parasites in the air that get you sick

REGIONS

• United States
• Midwest
• East North Central
• Great Lakes Region

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