illinois

1. A midwestern state in north-central United States (synset 109105071)
   is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
   has:

   • cairo - a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
   • carbondale - a town in southern Illinois
   • champaign - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
   • chicago, windy city - largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
   • decatur - a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here
   • east saint louis - a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
   • moline - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
   • peoria - a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River
   • rockford - a city in northern Illinois
   • rock island - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War
   • capital of illinois, springfield - capital of the state of Illinois
   • urbana - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign
   • illinois river - a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River
   • little wabash, little wabash river - a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River
   is a part of:

   • middle west, midwest, midwestern united states - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)
   • america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
   same as: il, ill., land of lincoln, prairie state
2. A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west (synset 109677320)
   is a type of: algonquian, algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
3. The Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami (synset 106922910)
   is a type of: algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

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