Illinois
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The State of Illinois is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Illinois has a broad economic base and is an important transportation hub.
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[edit] Illinois in The Guns of the South
Abraham Lincoln retired to Illinois after losing his bid for re-election in 1864.
[edit] Illinois in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Illinois was one of the many states where the Greater German Reich maintained a Wehrmacht base.
[edit] Illinois in Southern Victory
Illinois was the state where Abraham Lincoln gained political prominence. It was in Chicago that the Republican Party imploded in the immediate aftermath of the Second Mexican War.
At the beginning of the Great War, General George Custer claimed that half of downstate Illinois residents were Confederate sympathizers, a statement that did have some historical basis.
[edit] Illinois in Worldwar
Illinois served as a strategic point of many of the early battles between humans and the Race. It's largest city, Chicago, was destroyed by the first American fission bomb in an attempt to vaporize the large Lizard army that was conquering the city in a lengthy ground battle. Chicago served as the center of research for the US effort to create an atomic bomb before it became a battleground, forcing the evacuation of the nuclear program to Denver.
