Illinois
About Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago in the northeast.
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It was 1853 — because he was a lawyer, some people who were setting up a new town brought him in to kind of sign the deeds. They said, would you mind if we named this town after you? That's Lincoln, Illinois, which is still there today. At noon that day, he purchased two watermelons, carried them to the public square and squeezed the watermelon juice out onto the ground.
from No Such Thing As A Semen Chest, 2021-09-03 at 00:12:05 · read transcript
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It was blurbed as as like this was the PR around it was this is the coolest most gorgeous train you'll ever see and it was it was called the Alton Limited built in Illinois and the big deal was it was symmetrical that apparently I have no idea what previous trains look like apparently completely like bulging on one side and flat on the other.
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Were responding to and what they were liking about certain ones Wow it's like gangster it's very it is a bit mafioso, yeah yeah there was a scheme Allegedly I think he was in the mob anyway there was a thing in Illinois in 1998 where there was a police force small police force in a place called Kankakee, Illinois right they said that if you have an illegal gun but you hand it in to us you will get a free teeny beanie baby.
416: No Such Thing As The Turin Towelette, 2022-03-04 · listen
That got blown out of the water by a 42-foot-door one in Fanning, Missouri, which had to be welded to the ground because it was so clearly dangerous. That means it's not rocking? No, exactly. It's controversy. Anyway, neither of those is now the world's largest rocking chair, because in 2015, a place called Casey, Illinois, built a 56-foot-tall rocking chair, and so the others have had to rename themselves the former world's largest rocking chair, which is four. Does that one rock? Do you know? I think the Casey one does rock.
No Such Thing As Potter The Great, 2021-01-15 · listen
Wait a minute. That means it's not rocking? No, exactly. It's controversy. Anyway, neither of those is now the world's largest rocking chair because in 2015, a place called Casey, Illinois built a 56 foot tall rocking chair. So the others have had to rename themselves the former world's largest rocking chair. Does that one rock? Do you know? I think the Casey one does rock.
356: No Such Thing As Potter The Great, 2021-01-15 · listen
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