James
12-03-2005, 04:03 AM
187 years young! The Land of Lincoln achieved statehood this day in 1818!
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View Full Version : Happy Birthday, state of Illinois! James 12-03-2005, 04:03 AM 187 years young! The Land of Lincoln achieved statehood this day in 1818! :birthday: *Pleasant Tomorrow* 12-03-2005, 11:44 AM party: MsOrange 12-03-2005, 12:22 PM I was thinking dang, someone's got a really weird user name.... :birthday: TJL 12-03-2005, 12:38 PM We're going to need a lot of cake... ;) MsOrange 12-03-2005, 12:50 PM We're going to need a lot of cake... ;) think about the candles? Nighthawk76 12-03-2005, 01:21 PM Happy Birthday to my homestate. :) rusyd 12-03-2005, 08:42 PM Happy Birthday to my homestate. :) Mine also! Happy B-day Illinois!:birthday: EmoJoe 12-03-2005, 08:59 PM :birthday: party: Southern Hellraiser 12-03-2005, 11:15 PM I was thinking dang, someone's got a really weird user name.... :birthday: :lol: Happy Birthday, Illinois. party: Steve M. 12-04-2005, 12:59 AM Famous Prairie Staters include: Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas Muddy Waters Ronald Reagan Adlai E. Stevenson (Vice President of the United States, 1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson II (presidential candidate, 1952 and 1956) Adlai E. Stevenson III (U.S. senator) McLean Stevenson (distant cousin of Adlai II!) Steve Goodman (folk singer, wrote "City of New Orleans") Richard J. Daley Cindy Crawford Harold Washington (first black mayor of Chicago) Jesse Jackson Carol Moseley Braun (First black woman and black Democrat in the U.S. Senate) Barack Obama (first black male Democrat in the Senate) Gene Hackman Dick Van Dyke Edgar Lee Masters (poet) Richard Pryor Jack Benny Michael Bloomfield (blues guitarist) Bob Newhart Charles Percy (three-term U.S. senator) Hillary Rodham Clinton |