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ILLINOIS 



simple way, nor that its thought is consistently 

 lofty and its lines swinging and majestic; it is, 

 in addition to all this, a record of antiquity, 

 and very much that is known about the modes 

 of life and of thought in those far-away times 

 has been learned from its pages. R.D.M. 



Good translations of the Iliad may be pur- 

 chased at bookstores. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes will repay reading in this con- 

 nection : 



Menelaus 



Mythology 



Odyssey 



Paris 



Troy 



Ulysses 



Wooden Horse 



ILLINGTON, il' ing ton, MARGARET (1881- 

 ), an emotional actress, born at Bloom- 

 ington, 111. Her maiden name was MAUDE 

 LIGHT, the name Illington being a combination 

 of her native state and city. She studied 

 dramatic art in Chicago and made her first 

 professional appearance with James K. 

 Hackett in a small part in The Pride of 



Achilles 



Aeneid 



Agamemnon 



Epic 



Hector 



Helen of Troy 



Homer 



Jennico; later she played the heroine of the 



same drama. As leading woman to E. H. 



Sothern in // / Were King and as Henriette in 



the all-star cast 



of The Two Or- 

 phans, she added 



fresh honors to 



an already suc- 

 cessful career. In 



1907 she appeared 



as joint star with 



Kyrle Bellew in 



The Thief, and 



has since starred 



in The Lion and 



the Mouse, His 



House in Order, 



Kindling, and 



The Lie. After MARGARET ILLINGTON 



her divorce from 



Daniel Frohman, she married Edward J. Bowes, 

 of Seattle, Wash., in 1909. For a time she 

 retired from the stage, but she returned to it 

 in Kindling, a new success. 



Lincoln monument 

 Chicago 



Grant monument 

 Chicago 



.LLINOIS, ilinoi' or ilinoiz' f one of the 

 great north-central states of the American 

 Union, a state whose vast stretches of rolling, 

 grassy land have earned for it the title of the 

 PRAIRIE STATE. It was named for the Illinois 

 Indians, to whose home in the region many 

 names bear witness Kaskaskia, Peoria, Michi- 

 gan, and above all, Starved Rock; relics of 

 the Indians are found in various places, of 

 which the Cahokia Mound is the most note- 

 worthy. The violet has been chosen as the 

 state flower, but this is in no way symbolic 

 of the state, which has always been progressive 

 and in the forefront, rather than inclined to 

 lurk under any "mossy stone" of obscurity. 



Size and Positional Advantages. In size 

 Illinois ranks twenty-third among the states, 

 having an area of 56,665 square miles, a little 

 more than one-fifth that of Texas. Its length 



from north to south is 385 miles, its greatest 

 breadth, between Vermilion County on the 

 east and Adams County on the west, is about 

 218 miles. Few states illustrate in their his 

 tory and industrial development more interest- 

 ingly than does Illinois the advantages of a 

 favorable location. With Lake Michigan on 

 the northeast, the Mississippi River all along 

 its western border, the Wabash River on th< 

 southeast and the Ohio on the south, it 

 had none of that remoteness from which a state 

 so far inland might be supposed to suffer. 

 Over these waterways, before a network 

 railroads spread over the state, the products 

 of its remarkably fertile soil were easily de 

 patched to the populous regions far to th< 

 east and to the south. 



The People. At the date of admission of 

 Illinois as a state (1818) there were relatively 



