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*Rep. [[Melissa Bean]] [D, IL-8]
*Rep. [[Melissa Bean]] [D, IL-8]
*Rep. [[Janice Schakowsky]] [D, IL-9]
*Rep. [[Janice Schakowsky]] [D, IL-9]
==Further reading==
* Buck, Solon J. ''Illinois in 1818'' (1917) excellent history [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Illinois/_Texts/Centennial_History/Illinois_in_1818/home.html complete text online]
* Biles, Roger. ''Illinois: a history of the land and its people.'' (2005). very good recent survey DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780875803494. OCLC 58526330.
* Bridges, Roger D. and Davis, Rodney O., eds. ''Illinois: its history & legacy.'' (1984). essays by experts .
* Cole, Arthur Charles. ''The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870'' [1919]. excellent history
* Davis, James E. ''Frontier Illinois.'' (1998).
* Gove, Samuel Kimball; Nowlan, James Dunlap. ''Illinois politics & government: the expanding metropolitan frontier'' (1996) government textbook
* Grossman, James R., Keating, Ann Durkin and Reiff, Janice L. ''Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago'' (2005) (Online ed.).[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ outstanding reference on Chicagoland]
* Hallwas, John E., ed ''Illinois literature: the nineteenth century.'' (1986).
* Howard, Robert P. ''Illinois; a history of the Prairie State.'' (1972). fair textbook
* Jensen, Richard E. ''Illinois: a history'' (1977), influential interpretation, stressing traditionalism, modernization and postmodernity
* Keiser, John H. ''Building for the centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898.'' good survey
* Kleppner, Paul. ''Political atlas of Illinois'' (1988) election maps
* Meyer, Douglas K. ''Making the heartland quilt: a geographical history of settlement and migration in early-nineteenth-century Illinois.'' (2000).
===Primary sources===
* Peck, John Mason. ''A Gazetteer of Illinois, in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of Each County, and a Particular Description of Each'' (1837) fascinating primary source [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/300889206?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DY5pKAAAAMAAJ%26checksum%3D8b8c2da173569b9ff33410019959caef&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= online]
* Sutton, Robert P. ed. ''The Prairie State; a documentary history of Illinois.'' (1976). primary and secondard sources
* Walton, Clyde C. ed. ''An Illinois reader' '(1970). primary and secondary sources
* Works Progress Administration. ''The WPA guide to Illinois: the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s Illinois.'' (1939), very good primary source
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