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The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), the world's tallest building from 1973 to 2004. The tower's innovative bundled tube structure was designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan.
Photo credit: Soakologist

The water tower and barracks complex at Fort Sheridan in 1898. The principal buildings of the fort were built between 1889 and 1910 by the firm Holabird & Roche.
Image credit: Detroit Photographic Co.; Bathgems (upload)

The Old State Capitol in Springfield. Designed by John F. Rague in a Greek Revival style and completed in 1840, the building housed the Illinois General Assembly until 1876.
Photo credit: Agriculture

The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln is buried alongside Mary Todd Lincoln and three of their sons. The tomb, designed by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, was completed in 1874.
Photo credit: David Jones

A flowstone formation inside Chimney Dome, part of Illinois Caverns in Monroe County. The cave is formed in limestone and dolomite by water dissolution and features stalactites, stalagmites, rimstone dams, flowstone, and soda straws.
Photo credit: A. Frierdich

The Chicago Theatre. Designed by the firm Rapp and Rapp, it was the flagship theater for Balaban and Katz group.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

Symbols of many religions are carved in concrete relief on the exterior of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette. The temple was designed by the architect Louis Bourgeois and constructed between 1921 and 1953.
Image credit: ctot_not_def (photographer), Tobias Vetter (upload)

A view of Lake Falls in Matthiessen State Park in La Salle County near Oglesby. The park's stream begins with the Lake Falls and flows into the Vermillion River.
Photo credit: Cspayer

An illustration of Kincaid Mounds, a city of the Mississippian culture, at its height. The city was located near the Ohio River on the boundary of present day Massac and Pope Counties.
Image credit: H. Rowe

A mural by Chicago artist Louis Grell in the Springfield Amtrak station. The mural depicts a quote by Abraham Lincoln, a map of the post-1947 Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and the seals of the seven states that the railroad served.
Image credit: Louis Grell (painter), RI-Bill (photographer)

Map of the major railroads in Illinois. Illinois has an extensive passenger and freight rail transportation network, and Chicago is the largest and most active rail hub in the United States.
Image credit: Talha Rafiq

A street view of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park. Wright built the house in 1889 and added the Studio and Connecting Corridor in 1898. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust has restored the property to its appearance in 1909, the last year the architect lived there with his family.
Photo credit: User:Banewson

The Campana Factory in Batavia. It was built in 1936 to serve as a factory for The Campana Company, which produced Italian Balm, the most popular hand lotion in the United States during the Great Depression. The Streamline Moderne and Bauhaus design by Frank D. Chase features many innovative technologies, such as air conditioning.
Photo credit: User:MrPanyGoff

Plants of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County. Tallgrass prairie once covered around two-thirds of Illinois. Midewin is the only federal tallgrass prairie preserve east of the Mississippi River.
Photo credit: User:Alanscottwalker

A panoramic view of corn fields near Royal in Champaign County.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

The dome of the Illinois State Capitol. Designed by architects Cochrane and Garnsey, the dome's interior features a plaster frieze painted to resemble bronze and illustrating scenes from Illinois history. Stained glass windows, including a stained glass replica of the State Seal, appear in the oculus. Ground was first broken for the new capitol on March 11, 1869, and it was completed twenty years later.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

The "Chunkey Player" is an 8.5 inch (22 cm) high by 5.5 inch (14 cm) wide Missouri flint clay statuette depicting a player of the ancient Native American game of chunkey. Believed to have been originally crafted at or near the Cahokia site in Illinois, it was found in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
Photo credit: User:TimVickers

Map of the Multilevel streets in Chicago.
Image credit: User:SPUI

The McFarland Carillon is a 185-foot bell tower with 49 bells at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The tower was built in 2008-09 and was designed by Fred Guyton of Peckham, Guyton, Albers & Viets.
Image credit: Daniel Schwen

This map shows the approximate extent of the Havana Hopewell culture. The Havana interaction sphere was located in the Illinois and Mississippi river valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri from 200 BCE to 400 CE.
Image credit: Taylor H. Thornton

The coat of arms of Illinois as illustrated in the 1876 book State Arms of the Union by Louis Prang.
Image credit: Henry Mitchell (illustrator), Louis Prang & Co. (lithographer and publisher), Godot13 (restoration)

"The Great Presidential Puzzle": This chromolithograph cartoon about the 1880 Republican National Convention in Chicago shows Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwarts of the Republican Party, playing a puzzle game. All blocks in the puzzle are the heads of the potential Republican presidential candidates. The cartoon parodies the famous 15 puzzle.
Image credit: Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann (lithographers); James Albert Wales (artist); Jujutacular (digital retouching)

A poster for the Century of Progress World's Fair showing exhibition buildings with boats in the foreground..
Image credit: Weimer Pursell (artist); Neely Printing Co., Chicago (silkscreen print); Jujutacular (digital retouching)

This 1941 photograph shows the maze of livestock pens and walkways at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
Image credit: John Vachon, Farm Security Administration (photographer), Darwinek (digital retouching)

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844. This unusual black-and-white lithograph has a second yellow-brown layer on top of it.
Image credit: G.W. Fasel (painter); Charles G. Crehen (lithographer); Nagel & Weingaertner, N.Y. (publishers); Library of Congress (digital file); Adam Cuerden (upload)

American Gothic, a 1930 painting by Grant Wood, has been in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago since shortly after its creation. The painting is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art and has been widely parodied in popular culture.
Image credit: Grant Wood (painter), Google Art Project (digital file), DcoetzeeBot (upload)

A Howard bound Red Line train temporarily rerouted to elevated tracks at Randolph station, Chicago.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

"Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the presidency, 1860," a lithograph by Leopold Grozelier, et al. According to the Library of Congress, "Thomas Hicks painted a portrait of Lincoln at his office in Springfield specifically for this lithograph."
Image credit: Thomas Hicks (painter), Leopold Grozelier (lithographer), W. William Schaus (publisher), J.H. Bufford's Lith. (printer), Adam Cuerden (restoration)

Chris Young winding up for a four-seam fastball in the bullpen while warming up before a 2007 game. Behind Young can be seen the Wrigley Field scoreboard and bleachers.
Image credit: TonyTheTiger (photographer) and Jjron (editing)

The Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest. The unglaciated gray sandstone of the wilderness area is more rugged than most of Illinois.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

The Mendota Hills Wind Farm in Lee County. Built in 2003 by Navitas Energy, Mendota Hills was the first utility scale wind farm in Illinois.
Photo credit: Dori

The Twenty Acre Dairy Barn, first of the experimental University of Illinois round barns. The barn was designed by James M. White and Kell & Bernard for the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1908
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in downtown Chicago. The complex, designed by Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964, consists of two corncob-shaped 179 m, 65-story towers.
Photo credit: Diego Delso

A illustration of the Upper Bluff Lake Dancing Figures repoussé copper plate, an artifact of the Mississippian culture found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois.
Image credit: H. Rowe

Downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan (view from the Willis Tower).
Photo credit: Adrian104

The Cairo Mississippi River Bridge near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at Cairo, the lowest elevation in the state. The bridge was built in 1929 by the American Bridge Company and the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.
Image credit: Nick Jordan (photographer), Fredddie (upload)

Vandalia State House, the former state capitol. It was built in 1836 and is maintained by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Photo credit: Art davis

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The building was designed by Charles B. Atwood for D. H. Burnham & Company to house exhibits for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Image credit: zooey (photographer), Jasenlee~commonswiki (upload)

Magnolia Manor in Cairo, built by businessman Charles A. Galigher in 1869.
Photo credit: MuZemike

Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield. The house was built for the Rev. Charles Dresser in 1839. Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln purchased it in 1844, later adding a second story.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1926, a Railway Post Office preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union.
Photo credit: Sean Lamb

Hohenbuehelia mastrucata mushroom growing in Busse Woods, Elk Grove Village.
Image credit: Rocky Houghtby (photographer), Leoboudv (upload)

A pyrite disc, also called a "miner's dollar," from a coal mine in Sparta.
Image credit: Cccefalon (photographer and digital retouching)

A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) flying with nesting material in Illinois. There is a colony of about twenty heron nests in trees nearby.
Image credit: PhotoBobil (photographer), Snowmanradio (upload), PetarM (digital retouching)

A tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) in Urbana.
Image credit: Daniel Schwen

Chicago and North Western Railway locomotive shops in Chicago, December 1942.
Image credit: Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration (photographer); Library of Congress (digital file); Trialsanderrors and Yann (digital retouching)

A Canada goose (Branta canadensis) swimming in Palatine.
Photo credit: Joe Ravi

A tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) in Shawnee National Forest.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

A mill belonging to the grain company Bunge Lauhoff in downtown Danville. The facility was built in 1947.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen

Shore of Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park in Lake County.
Image credit: Yinan Chen (photographer), Slick (upload)

The LaSalle Rail Bridge and Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge over the Illinois River. The LaSalle Bridge was built by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1893, and the Lincoln Bridge was built in 1987 with the construction of Interstate 39.
Image credit: Joseph Norton and Ronald Frazier (photographers), Alanscottwalker (upload)

Architectural details of Altgeld Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Designed by UIUC professors Nathan Ricker and James McLaren White, the building is one of Altgeld's castles.
Image credit: Kevin Dooley (photographer), Smallbones (upload)

Photograph of suffragette, social worker, philosopher, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams in 1924 or 1926.
Image credit: Bain News Service (photograph), Adam Cuerden (restoration)

Photograph of Rockford pilot Elizabeth L. Gardner with the WASPs at Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas.
Image credit: U.S. Dept. of the Air Force (photograph); National Archives Catalog (digital file); Junkyardsparkle, Hohum, Bammesk (digital retouching)

Lithograph advertisement for the CH&D Railway showing the interior of a Pullman dining car, 1894, with a Pullman porter serving two men at a table.
Image credit: Strobridge & Co. (lithographers), Library of Congress (digital file), Mu (upload)

Photograph of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Black Betsy in hand, in 1913 with the Cleveland Naps, prior to his seasons with the Chicago White Sox.
Image credit: Charles M. Conlon (photographer), Mears Auctions (digital file), Scewing (upload)

"Let Go–But Stand By:" Photograph of Frances Willard from her 1895 book, A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle. The new safety bicycle became associated with women's emancipation.
Image credit: Frances E. Willard (book author), Woman's Temperance Publishing Association and Fleming H. Revell Co. (publishers), HathiTrust (digitization), Dennis Bratland (upload)