Illinois: Timeline

1818   Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state U.S. state

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1847   Donner Party, a caravan of settlers from Illinois to California California

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, is stuck near what is now Donner Lake due to heavy snowstorm. They will be rescued February 19 1848

1873   Henry Rose exhibits barbed wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish, who invent a machine to mass-produce it.

1894   Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union Trade union

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 approval) strike in Illinois.

1917   Tornado Tornado

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 strikes Mattoon, Illinois causing devastation and killing 101 people.

1925   The Tri-State Tornado raked through Missouri Missouri

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, Illinois, and Indiana Indiana

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 and killed 695 people.

1969   The "Chicago Eight" trial begins in Chicago Chicago

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, Illinois.

1994   Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy

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 by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys.

2000   Joseph Piscopo of Chicago Chicago

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, Illinois marries Peangjai Onsee of Udon Thani, Thailand Thailand

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, in Las Vegas, Nevada Nevada

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2003   Meigs Field Airport in Chicago, Illinois is demolished overnight. is toppled by Iraqis as the American forces capture Baghdad Baghdad

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