Welcome to Illinois!
  FAST FACTS: The first European explorers in Illinois were Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, Frenchmen who paddled by birchbark canoe along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. They traveled the length of the state-from what is now Chicago to the southernmost reaches of Illinois. One can only imagine what they were thing when then witnessed the raw wilderness that surrounded them; trappings of an untouched resource, finally ready for the world.

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