Illinois

Headnote

ILLINOIS, sometimes called the "Prairie State," is situated between 37° and 42° 30' north latitude, and 87° 49' and 91°30' longitude west from Greenwich; it is bounded north by Wisconsin, east by Lake Michigan and Indiana, south by the Ohio river, which separates it from Kentucky, and west by the Mississippi river, which separates it from Missouri and Iowa. ... Population — In 1810, 12,282; in 1820, 55,211; in 1830, 157,455; in 1840, 476,183; in 1850, 851,470. (Fanning's, 1853)

    Place Unit Type
    State or Province
    Containing Unit
    Name Type
    Adams County, IL County
    Alexander County, IL County
    Bond County, IL County
    Boone County, IL County
    Brown County, IL County
    Bureau County, IL County
    Calhoun County, IL County
    Carroll County, IL County
    Cass County, IL County
    Champaign County, IL County
    Christian County, IL County
    Clark County, IL County
    Clay County, IL County
    Clinton County, IL County
    Coles County, IL County
    Cook County, IL County
    Crawford County, IL County
    Cumberland County, IL County
    DeKalb County, IL County
    DeWitt County, IL County
    Douglas County, IL County
    DuPage County, IL County
    Edgar County, IL County
    Edwards County, IL County
    Effingham County, IL County
    Fayette County, IL County
    Ford County, IL County
    Franklin County, IL County
    Fulton County, IL County
    Gallatin County, IL County
    Greene County, IL County
    Grundy County, IL County
    Hamilton County, IL County
    Hancock County, IL County
    Hardin County, IL County
    Henderson County, IL County
    Henry County, IL County
    Iroquois County, IL County
    Jackson County, IL County
    Jasper County, IL County
    Jefferson County, IL County
    Jersey County, IL County
    Jo Daviess County, IL County
    Johnson County, IL County
    Kane County, IL County
    Kankakee County, IL County
    Kendall County, IL County
    Knox County, IL County
    La Salle County, IL County
    Lake County, IL County
    Lawrence County, IL County
    Lee County, IL County
    Livingston County, IL County
    Logan County, IL County
    Macon County, IL County
    Macoupin County, IL County
    Madison County, IL County
    Marion County, IL County
    Marshall County, IL County
    Mason County, IL County
    Massac County, IL County
    McDonough County, IL County
    McHenry County, IL County
    McLean County, IL County
    Menard County, IL County
    Mercer County, IL County
    Monroe County, IL County
    Montgomery County, IL County
    Morgan County, IL County
    Moultrie County, IL County
    Ogle County, IL County
    Peoria County, IL County
    Perry County, IL County
    Piatt County, IL County
    Pike County, IL County
    Pope County, IL County
    Pulaski County, IL County
    Putnam County, IL County
    Randolph County, IL County
    Richland County, IL County
    Rock Island County, IL County
    Saline County, IL County
    Sangamon County, IL County
    Schuyler County, IL County
    Scott County, IL County
    Shelby County, IL County
    St. Clair County, IL County
    Stark County, IL County
    Stephenson County, IL County
    Tazewell County, IL County
    Union County, IL County
    Vermilion County, IL County
    Wabash County, IL County
    Warren County, IL County
    Washington County, IL County
    Wayne County, IL County
    White County, IL County
    Whiteside County, IL County
    Will County, IL County
    Williamson County, IL County
    Winnebago County, IL County
    Woodford County, IL County
    Date Title
    Abraham Lincoln to the Voters of the Illinois Seventh Congressional District, July 31, 1846
    Abraham Lincoln to William Herndon, June 12, 1848
    Seth Concklin to William Still, February 18, 1851
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer,“Senator Douglas and the Presidency,” December 24, 1855
    Abraham Lincoln, Form Letter to Fillmore men, September 8, 1856
    New York Times, "What the Dred Scott Case Decided," July 16, 1857
    Boston (MA) Liberator, "Buchanan Democracy," October 30, 1857
    Abraham Lincoln, Fragment of a Speech, circa December 28, 1857
    Recollection by Henry Villard, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, June 16-November 2, 1858
    Raleigh (NC) Register, “The Northern Democracy Split to Pieces,” June 23, 1858
    Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, June 27, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas Coming Home," July 7, 1858
    New York Herald, "The Late Meeting of Maryland Slaveholders," July 23, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas on the Stump," July 23, 1858
    (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "On the Way to Arizonia," July 25, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Douglas Tottering!," July 29, 1858
    New York Herald, "The Illinois Champions on the Same Stump," July 30, 1858
    New York Times, “Democratic Prospects In Illinois,” August 18, 1858
    - Recollection by John M. Palmer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
    Recollection by John W. Forney, Abraham Lincoln
    New York Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 22, 1858
    Leavenworth (KS) Journal, "Cheering News," August 26, 1858
    New York Herald, “No Quarter to Douglas,” August 30, 1858
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Little Giant," September 2, 1858
    (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “Untitled,” September 24, 1858
    New York Herald, “Our Richmond Correspondence,” October 17, 1858
    Philadelphia (PA) Press, “The Latest But Not The Last Lesson,” November 4, 1858
    New York Times, "The Illinois Election," November 5, 1858
    New York Herald, “Douglas for the Presidency,” November 7, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Popular Majority,” November 9, 1858
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Rejoicing for Douglas," November 11, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "A House Divided, &c.," November 17, 1858
    Raleigh (NC) Register, “Douglas Stock Rising,” December 8, 1858
    Boston (MA) Flag of Our Union, “Uncle Sam’s Farm,” December 11, 1858
    New York Times, “Senator Douglas and the City Government,” December 20, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Re-election of Senator Douglas," January 6, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “For the Lambs of the Flock,” January 12, 1859
    New York Herald, “The Presidential Question,” January 24, 1859
    New York Herald, “The Case of Douglas vs. Fitch," January 25, 1859
    San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The Douglas and Fitch Row in Congress,” February 18, 1859
    San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The National Disgrace of “Honorable” Squabbling,” February 25, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Drawing it Mild,” April 9, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln in New York,” April 21, 1859
    Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, April 30, 1859
    Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Democratic Movements,” May 10, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Popular Sovereignty in Kentucky,” June 3, 1859
    Raleigh (NC) Register, “How Firmly United the Democracy Are,” February 22, 1860
    New York Times, "Democratic National Convention," March 17, 1860
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Astonishing Depravity!,” May 29, 1860
    Stephen A. Douglas to Follett Foster & Company, June 9, 1860
    (Jackson) Mississippian, “Fiendish Plot to Rob and Murder,” June 27, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Making a Cat’s-Paw of Douglas,” July 31, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "No Go Yet," August 23, 1860
    New York Times, “A Needless Panic,” August 29, 1860
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “The War of the Giants,” September 13, 1860
    (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “Illinois Sure for Douglas,” October 27, 1860
    John P. Sanderson to David Davis, November 12, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, "An Honest Confession," November 17, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “A Remarkable Statement,” December 20, 1860
    New York Herald, “Coercion Symptoms in the West and North-West,” January 15, 1861
    (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “Mr. Lincoln A Black Man,” January 19, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Quick, Sharp, and Decisive,” April 15, 1861
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Reorganization,” April 22, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Treason in Illinois,” June 7, 1861
    Jesse K. Dubois to Abraham Lincoln, June 8, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “No Lynchings,” June 21, 1861
    Ozias Mather Hatch to Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
    Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864, New York City
    How to Cite This Page: "Illinois," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/9044.