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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)
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