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	IC History
		The Illinois Central Railroad was chartered in 1851 to build a railroad from Cairo, Illinois, at the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to Galena, in the extreme northwestern corner of the state (the "Old Main"), with a branch from Centralia (named for the railroad) to Chicago (the "Chicago Branch").
		The NOJandGN and Mississippi Central were then reorganized in 1877 as the New Orleans, Jackson and Northern and the Central Mississippi, respectively, and then consolidated as the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the IC.
		In 1972 the Illinois Central merged with the parallel Gulf Mobile and Ohio to form Illinois Central Gulf.
	icrrhistorical.org /icrr.history.html (1100 words)

	Illinois Central Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Illinois Central (AAR reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad carrier in the central United States, with its primary routes from Chicago to New Orleans and Sioux Falls.
		The Illinois Central was officially chartered by the General Assembly in 1851.
		On August 10, 1972 the Illinois Central Railroad merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illinois_Central (504 words)

	IC History
		The Illinois Central Railroad was chartered in 1851 to build a railroad from Cairo, Illinois, at the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to Galena, in the extreme northwestern corner of the state (the "Old Main"), with a branch from Centralia (named for the railroad) to Chicago (the "Chicago Branch").
		The NOJandGN and Mississippi Central were then reorganized in 1877 as the New Orleans, Jackson and Northern and the Central Mississippi, respectively, and then consolidated as the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the IC.
		In 1972 the Illinois Central merged with the parallel Gulf Mobile and Ohio to form Illinois Central Gulf.
	www.icrrhistorical.org /icrr.history.html (1100 words)

	Illinois Central Railroad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its roots stretch back to abortive attempts by the (additional info and facts about Illinois General Assembly) Illinois General Assembly to charter a railroad linking the northern and southern parts of the state of (A Midwest state in north-central United States) Illinois.
		Its main line went from (additional info and facts about Cairo, Illinois) Cairo, Illinois, at the southern tip of the state, to (Soft blue-gray mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead) Galena, in the northwest corner.
		In 1876 the Illinois Central extended its track into (A state in midwestern United States) Iowa.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/il/illinois_central_railroad.htm (442 words)

	Illinois Central Net Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Illinois Central Mailing List, the Official List of the I.C.H.S. is a site where information about the Illinois Central can be exchanged, where questions can be posted and answers can be found, Check it out.
		Illinois Central Steam These photos are from the archives of the IC.
		The Illinois Central had an OFFICIAL CALENDAR which is not available to the general public.
	www.illinoiscentral.net (598 words)

	Illinois State Historical Markers: Illinois Central Railroad, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The following year the state issued a charter to the Illinois Central which outlined the route from the southern end of the Illinois and Michigan Canal (LaSalle) to Cairo with branches to Chicago and, through Galena, to the banks of the Mississippi River.
		In later years, the Illinois Central encouraged the development of a variety of crops such as sorghum, sugar beets, cotton, fruits, vegetables and soybeans; the improvement of livestock; the use of farm machinery; and the development of industry and coal mining.
		For sixteen years the Illinois Central was exclusively an Illinois railroad; then it began to expand into other states.
	www.historyillinois.org /frames/markers/154.htm (288 words)

	Richard Leonard's Steam Locomotive Archive - Illinois Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bloomington was served by four railroads: the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio's former "Alton Route," the Nickel Plate's Peoria branch, New York Central's subsidiary Peoria and Eastern, and the Illinois Central.
		At that time, in our area, the Illinois Central was still 100 percent steam for freight service, and I (still in pre-driving mode) made many a visit to trackside via bicycle.
		Bloomington was a junction between the Illinois Central's original main line from southern Illinois to Freeport, where it intersected the Iowa main line, and a branch from Bloomington to Kankakee (the tracks actually diverged just north of the Bloomington-Normal city boundary).
	www.forecyte.com /rlsteam2/ic.htm (1559 words)

	Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database
		Each purchase entry includes the purchaser's name, purchase date, number of acres, price per acre, numeric code indicating the county in which the land is located, legal description (township, section, range), volume and page numbers of original entry, and variously, the sale type, and the purchaser's sex and residence.
		Lands donated to the Illinois Central Railroad never were conveyed by patents; clerks for that company executed deeds for those land sales.
		The rectangular coordinate system of surveys divides Illinois into 36-square mile townships that are located in ranges west of the 2nd Principal Meridian or east or west of the 3rd or the 4th Principal Meridian.
	www.sos.state.il.us /departments/archives/data_lan.html (1159 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Illinois Central Station
		Central Station was opened for business in 1893, partly in an effort to improve service capacity and overall customer satisfaction during that year's World's Columbian Exposition, when hundreds of thousands of fair-goers voyaged to Chicago by train.
		Despite the alterations in the landscape, Central Station's all-brick, Romanesque facade and tall clock tower remained a dramatic landmark at the southern end of the park.
		In the end, Central Station continued to serve passengers through the 1960s, and was finally disused only after the consolidation of intercity service at Union Station by Amtrak in 1972.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/transpor/cent_sta.htm (739 words)

	PJStar.com - Peoria Journal Star Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With it, river traffic shifted from the Illinois to the Ohio and Wabash rivers, and Lake Peoria lost its strategic importance to the French.
		Spain claimed the Illinois River and all its tributaries by right of conquest, but its claims were rejected when England made peace with the American colonies, and with France and Spain, in 1783.
		In the winter of 1844-45, the Illinois Legislature passed a measure entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Peoria," providing that the charter be submitted to a vote of the people.
	www.pjstar.com /services/journalstar/peoriahistory.html (9364 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		This suit was commenced on the 1st of March, 1883, in a circuit court of Illinois, by an information or bill in equity filed by the attorney general of the state, in the name of its people, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, a corporation created under its laws, and against the city of Chicago.
		The right of the Illinois Central Railroad Company under the grant from the state in its charter, which said grant constitutes a part of the consideration for which the said company pays to the state at least seven per cent.
		By a statute of Illinois the making, acknowledging, and recording of the plats operated to vest the title to the streets, alleys, ways, and commons, and other public grounds designated on such plats, in the city, in trust for the public uses to which they were applicable.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=146&invol=387 (8015 words)

	Steamtown NHS: Special History Study
		As of 1900, the Illinois Central Railroad extended 912 miles from Chicago via Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, but if one added in the other main, branch, and leased lines, as of 1902 the company operated 4,265-1/2 miles of track.
		A comparatively old railroad, chartered February 10, 1851, the Illinois Central had built first to Dubuque, Iowa, which it reached on June 11, 1855, then to Cairo, which it reached on September 27, 1856.
		The engine must have seen hard service, for reportedly the Illinois Central rebuilt it in 1918, modernizing it with a superheater, and possibly replacing the boiler and firebox.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/steamtown/shs2i.htm (1083 words)

	For police chopper, forget Chicago -- call Countryside
		Illinois State Police did have a helicopter -- Air One -- but it grounded the bird "for financial reasons" a few years go.
		In 1998, the Illinois State Police helicopter was called to action when a ''Freaknic'' party turned into two separate riots in Schiller Park.
		He filed applications to the Illinois Central Management Services, to the Law Enforcement Surplus Office, to the Illinois Terrorism Task Force and to the Department of Homeland Security to get the helicopter the State Police stopped using.
	www.suntimes.com /output/laney/cst-edt-laney14.html (883 words)

	Illinois Central College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its purpose is to both enable students to reach their educational potential, and to serve as a resource for the educational and cultural needs of the community.
		Founded as a comprehensive community college in 1966, Illinois Central College was established to meet the post-secondary needs of the citizens of the District and to supplement the area schools and four-year colleges.
		The student is the center of all that is done at Illinois Central College.
	www.uis.edu /clas/online/Illinois%20Central%20College.htm (260 words)

	ILLINOIS VALLEY CENTRAL MARCHING GREY GHOST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Illinois Valley Central High School offers the advantages of a comprehensive metropolitan school while retaining the spirit and closeness of a smaller school.
		The two feeder schools into the IVC Marching Grey Ghost are Chillicothe Elementary Center Junior High under the direction of Kim Fuchs and Mossville Junior High under the direction of Matt Chapman.
		The Illinois Valley Central district is proud of the achievements that the band and fine arts program has contributed to the community.
	home.mchsi.com /~sekumpf (210 words)

	El Paso, Illinois, Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Illinois Central locomotive number one, or number two which was a duplicate, pulled the first scheduled train into Kappa and Panola, May 23, 1853.
		There was an early Rock Island Railroad connection at La Salle with the Central, but in the construction work, rails and equipment for the latter had been largely shipped from far away Birmingham, England, by water and paid for mostly with Illinois Central stock.
		He pressed a point they already knew: that by using two slight curves in the line the rails could come in over Illinois Central land, Sections 6, 8, and 4 in turn, thus avoiding their own Section 5 completely.
	www.elpaso.net /~bank/elpasohistory/epstory/pgtx047.htm (215 words)

	Illinois Central Berkshires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Illinois Central Railroad bought 50 Class A-1 Berkshires from the Lima Locomotive Works in 1926.
		This is the very same demonstrator that was tested in the Berkshire Hills for the Boston and Albany and later went on the road to sell this new class of locomotive for Lima.
		These superpower locomotives designed and tested for rugged mountainous service on heavy grades were used on a nearly gradeless division of the Illinois Central.
	www.steamlocomotive.com /berkshire/ic.html (319 words)

	Central Illinois ABATE, Inc.
		We were originally District 3, organized in May 1980, of the first ABATE of Illinois, which was created and sanctioned by Easyriders Magazine in the seventies.
		After the first ABATE of Illinois Corporation was involuntarily dissolved for non-filing of the Annual Corporation Report to the State of Illinois in March 1985, we incorporated on July 29, 1985 as Central Illinois A.B.A.T.E., Inc. We are the oldest continuing A.B.A.T.E. corporation in this state.
		Preventing an accident from occurring is of the utmost importance and to that end we try to educate ourselves on the proper operation of motorcycles and try to educate the general public that we, as motorcyclists, in traffic, have the same rights as other highway users.
	www.centralilabate.org (243 words)

	US Attorney's Office Central District of Illinois
		The State of Illinois is divided into three judicial districts - the Central District, the Northern District (with headquarters in Chicago) and the Southern District (with headquarters in Fairview Heights).
		The U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of Illinois, is headquartered in Springfield with staffed offices in Urbana, Peoria and the Quad Cities.
		the one-hundred and two counties in the state of Illinois.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/ilc (62 words)

	Waterfowl Surveys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The entire Central Zone including the Central Quota Zone is closed to Canada goose and white-fronted goose hunting.
		NOTE: In the past, West Central IL surveys were conducted twice a month through the end of January.
		The west central flights were flown on Tuesdays and Southern IL / Western KY are flown on Mondays or Tuesdays; all flights are subject to cancellation due to weather conditions and/or plane and/or pilot availability
	dnr.state.il.us /admin/systems/duckgeese (628 words)

	Illinois Central College
		Due to a hardware failure a portion of the Illinois Central College East Peoria telephone service is down.
		Illinois Central College, District No. 514, Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
		It is the policy of this college that no person, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran's status, shall be discriminated against in employment, in educational programs and activities, or in admission.
	www.icc.edu (504 words)

	U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
		U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
		elcome to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
		This is the federal trial court which serves the forty-six counties in the heart of Illinois.
	www.ilcd.uscourts.gov (147 words)

	Central Illinois Bank - highest interest bank rates on cds savings and money market accounts of central illinois area ...
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		Advertised rate applies to new home equity credit accounts and not available for refinancing of existing Central Illinois Bank accounts.
	www.centralillinoisbank.com (365 words)

	Central Illinois Small Animal Rescue
		At Central Illinois Small Animal Rescue (CISAR), we believe every animal has a right to life.
		We take in abused, abandoned, mistreated, unwanted animals that need a loving home, and we rehabilitate them and show them love and affection so they can bless their new family as a wonderful pet.
		All animals receive veterinary care when they arrive, including all necessary shots, and all are spayed or neutered and microchipped prior to leaving.
	www.cisarshelter.com (152 words)

	Illinois Ballet
		The Illinois Ballet is in the process of being reorganized.
		The pictures for the Central Illinois Dance School 2006 recital will be posted on the Natural Image Photography web site shortly.
		Any questions please contact Jared Lonergan at 309.369.2078, or The Central Illinois Dance School at 309.
	www.illinoisballet.org (240 words)

	Illinois Golf Course Guide - Golf News by GolfIllinois.com - Chicago golf packages
		Central Illinois replete with excellent golf and authentic Americana
		Central Illinois is the very heart of America's heartland, offering unique bits of Americana, excellent homestyle cooking and, best of all, first-rate golf at bargain prices.
		Illinois' "Twin Cities" are home to five public golf courses with green fees so low that even a daily round won't break most budgets.
	www.golfillinois.com (1022 words)

	Central Illinois German Shepherd Dog Rescue - Urbana, IL
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		Elizabeth Riddle, our rescue president, outside of her full-time job and continuing educational pursuits, is an animal behaviorist and an obedience instructor, with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Illinois with a specialty in Ethology (the study of animal behavior).
		She officially founded this rescue in November of 1997 while attending the University of Illinois.
	www.gsdhaven.org (730 words)

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		Chances are you know the 'Illinois Whistle' from our advertising.
	www.enjoyillinois.com (410 words)

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