Mrs'' DiStefanos fourth grade class

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A B C of Illinois

• By
• Mrs.. DiStefanos fourth grade class
• 2005

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A is for agriculture

• Agriculture is very famous in Illinois. Lots of
  farmers raise hogs and beef cattle. Illinois and
  Iowa trade a lot. Veggies are grown in the
  northern part of Illinois.

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B is for Blue Gill and Black Hawk

• It is the state fish. A blue gill is not blue. It
  is green, yellow, and orange. The Black Hawk is
  black thow.

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C is for Al Capone

• C is for Al Capone the famous scarface gangster
  that lived in a prison called Alcatraz. This
  prison was the only prison that was built on a
  island. He is still the best killer and gangster
  ever.

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D is for Richard J Daley

• Richard Daley was a mayor of Illinois for six
  terms from 1955 until he died in 1976.

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E is for Ethanol and Esther Morris

• Ethanol is a fuel made from corn. It is very
  environmentally friendly. Esther Morris was a
  woman who supported womans rights, convinced the
  lawmakers to create a bill giving women the right
  to vote and was the first woman to be judge. She
  was from Illinois.

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F is for farmland

• Illinois has high-quality farmland, and is a
  reason that Illinois is one of the leading
  agriculture states.

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G is for Great Chicago Fire

• A cow belonging to Mrs. OLeary is said to have
  knocked over a lamp to start the Chicago Fire. It
  destroyed all of Chicago and lasted two days.

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H is for Horseradish and Hogs

• Collinsville,Illinois is sometimes called the
  Horseradish Capital of the World. There are
  a whole bunch of hogs in Illinois.

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I is for Iroquois

• They had been forced area to area because of the
  European settlers.

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J is for Louis Joliet

• Louis Joliet was one of the first Europeans to
  enter Illinois. Another person to travel with him
  was Pierre Marquette. They established
  settlements in Peoria.

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K is for Kahoks and Kickapoo

• The Kahoks are the name of Collinsvilles high
  school sports team.
• The Kickapoo were a group of Indians who live in
  Illinois, and made friends with Americans.

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L is for Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln started his law career in
  Illinois. He was the 16th president of the United
  States. Abraham Lincoln is also buried in
  Springfield, Illinois.

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M is for Monarch butterflyM is also for the
Mississippi River

• The Monarch butterfly is Illinoiss state
  butterfly.
• The Mississippi River is the western border of
  Illinois.

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N is for Native Americans,and for New Salem.

• N is for Native Americans because Native
  Americans of the Mississippi culture lived in
  what's now is Illinois.
• N is also for New Salem.
• Abraham Lincoln first began practicing the law in
  new Salem.

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O is for Olof Krans

• Olof Krans was a famous painter. He painted many
  works of Swedish immigrants who came to Illinois.

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P is for Popeye

• Popeye was a TV actress, book author and lives in
  Charleston Illinois.

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Q is for Quincy Illinois

• Quincy Illinois was the first city to use a
  metropolitan fire alarm system back in 1901.

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R is for Robert Wadlow

• Robert Wadlow was the Alton Giant. He had a hard
  life. One of the things he had to do was drive a
  special wagon. You can see a life-size statue of
  him in Alton, Illinois. He was 8 foot 11.

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S is for Superman

• Jerry Siegal was the creator of Superman. He
  lives in Metropolis,IL there is a giant statue of
  him there. Jerry Siegal died in January 28, 1996.
  The last telecast of Superman was February 12,
  2000.

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T is for twentyfirst state

• Illinois became the 21st state on December 3,
  1818.

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U is for Ulysses S. Grant

• Ulysses S. Grant was a Civil War general and
  colonel of an Ulysses Illinois volunteer
  regiment, who rose to rank of lieutenant
  general.He was named Supreme Commander of Union
  army during the Civil War. He was the eighteenth
  president of the U.S.

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V is for Vandalia

• Vandalia was the second capital of Illinois. In
  1839 the state capital was moved from Vandalia to
  Springfield.

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W is for White-tailed Deer

• The white-tailed deer is our state animal. The
  white-tailed deer gets its name from a large,
  v-shaped tail that flashes white hairs when it is
  raised in alarm

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X is for eXamine
You should examine the sights in Illinois.
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Y is for yellow fields

• We grow a lot of corn in Illinois. Some kinds
  are popcorn, sweet corn and field corn.

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Z is for Brookfield Zoo

• Brookfield zoo is close to Chicago.