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a report exonerating Lorimer. Finally, in 

 July, 1912, after the discovery of additional 

 evidence, he was deprived of his seat in the 

 Senate, following an investigation in which the 

 entire nation became deeply interested. 



In the next year, 1913, the legislature passed 

 a measure giving to women partial suffrage. 

 They may vote for Presidential electors, for 

 various municipal, county and township offi- 

 cers, and for university trustees, but only an 

 amendment of the constitution can make pos- 

 sible complete woman's suffrage. At present 

 they are deprived from voting for any officer 

 whose place was created by the state constitu- 

 tion. An attempt was made to prove the 

 measure unconstitutional, but the Supreme 

 Court upheld it in 1914, and in that same year 

 were held the first elections in which women 

 participated. Their influence was most notice- 

 able on questions concerning the liquor traffic. 

 In 1917, fifty-three of the 102 counties of the 

 state were under prohibition laws, besides 

 which there existed township prohibition in 

 many other sections. Illinois was the first state 

 to approve the woman suffrage amendment to 

 the United States Constitution, and it previously 

 gave a prompt vote favorable to the national 

 prohibition amendment. 



Other Items of Interest. The first Indians 

 that the original explorers met called them- 

 selves Illini, which meant men, to distinguish 

 themselves from their enemies, whom they 

 called beasts. 



Despite the very considerable railway mile- 

 age of the state there is one county which has 

 no railroads. This does not argue, however, 

 that Calhoun County is unprogressive. It is 

 a long, narrow "peninsula" between the Illinois 

 and the Mississippi, and river transportatoin 

 is sufficient for its needs. 



All but the southern portion of the state 

 was at one time covered with the great glacial 

 ice sheet, and to this fact is due the level 

 character of the land and the great fertility 

 of the soil. The southern or non-glaciated 

 area is very different in appearance from the 

 northern part of the state, for its hills are rough 

 and rocky instead of rounded, its rivers flow 

 through miniature canyons, and its soil over 

 the limestone rock is thin. 



"Chills and fever" constituted a dangerous 

 enemy to many of the early settlers in the 

 river districts, but sanitary drainage has practi- 

 cally overcome the danger of malaria. A.MC c. 



Consult Mather's The Making of Illinois ; Nida's 

 The Story of Illinois and Its People. 

 184 



Related Subjecta. The reader is referred to 



the following articles in these volumes : 



CITIES 



Alton Joliet 



Aurora Kankakee 



Belleville Kewanee 



Bloomington La Salle 



Cairo Lincoln 



Canton Mattoon 



Centralia Moline 



Champaign Monmouth 



Chicago Mount Vernon 



Chicago Heights Ottawa 



Danville Pekin 



Decatur Peoria 



De Kalb Quincy 



East Saint Louis Rockford 



Elgin Rock Island . 



Evanston Springfield 



Freeport Streator 



Galesburg Urbana 



Granite City Waukegan 

 Jacksonville 



HISTORY 



Black Hawk Marquette, Jacques 



Clark, George Rogers Mormons 



Illinois (Indians) Ordinance of 1787 



Joliet, Louis Starved Rock 



PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES 



Coal Oats 



Corn Petroleum 



Dairying Steel 

 Meat and Meat Packing Wheat 



RIVERS 

 Rock 

 Wabash 



Illinois 



Mississippi 



Ohio 



UNCLASSIFIED 



Chicago Drainage Michigan, Lake 



Canal Ozark Mountains 



Erie Canal Prairie 



ILLINOIS, the collective name of five dis- 

 tinct tribes 'of American Indians belonging to 

 the Algonquian family. At one time they oc- 

 cupied the territory that is now included in 

 the states of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and 

 Missouri. The Illinois tribes became the 

 friends of La Salle during his explorations in 

 the Mississippi Valley, and during the French 

 and Indian Wars it was therefore natural that 

 they should help the French. They regarded 

 the advance of the English settlers with hos- 

 tility, and were subdued only after many wars 

 had been waged against them. Especially did 

 they suffer in their conflict with the Ottawa 

 Indians, who fought them to avenge the mur- 

 der of Pontiac (which see). The remnant of 

 the tribes, numbering about 200, lives on a 

 reservation in Oklahoma. See INDIANS, AMERI- 



ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF, one of the largest 

 and most important universities in the United 



