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Thursday, April 5, 2018
Illinois' 200th Anniversary-- Part 4: Black Hawk and Lewis & Clark
This year marks the State of Illinois' 200th anniversary of being in the United States. It joined in December, 1818.
These are historical places every Illinoisan should visit at least once.
16. CHESS RECORDS-- Chicago-- 2120 S. Michigan Avenue. Where Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones and many others made music history.
17. PILSEN MURALS-- Chicago-- These murals have been up fifty years. Also, the neighborhood is still primarily Hispanic.
18. BLACK HAWK STATE HISTORIC SITE-- Rock Island-- The sauk and Fox Indians. Black Hawk led a failed attempt to reoccupy lands his people had lost to whites. This led to the brief Black Hawk War of 1832.
19. LEWIS AND CLARK-- Downstate near St. Louis-- Hartford, Illinois-- Reconstruction of Camp Dubois where Corps of Discovery spent the winter 1803-1804, preparing for their epic trip.
20. ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL MONUMENT-- Chicago-- Put up on 100th anniversary of statehood in 1918 in Logan Park. Depicts Native Americans, explorers, farmers and laborers.
--RoadIllinosDog
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