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- The highest point in Illinois is Charles Mound standing at 1,235 feet
- Illinois is home to the world’s only river that flows backwards
- Aurora is known as the City of Lights because it was the first U.S. city to use electric street lighting throughout the entire city
- There is a fire-breathing dragon in Vandalia, IL known as the Kaskaskia Dragon
- The term ‘jazz’ was coined in Chicago in 1914 by Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa
- The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago is the nation’s oldest public zoo and is one of three major free zoos in the country
- Twinkies were invented on April 6, 1930 in River Forest, IL
- Morton, IL is the pumpkin capital of the world with more than 85% of packaged pumpkin coming from here
- The world’s tallest man was born in Alton, IL. Robert Pershing Wadlow was 8’11” tall, weighed 491 pounds, and wore a size 37 shoe
- The first public office that Abraham Lincoln took was as postmaster in New Salem, IL
- The first farming tower silo was created in Spring Grove, IL
- The first all-color TV station debuted in Chicago (channel 5)
- Almost 80% of the state’s land area is farm land
- April 1st was officially named “Cheap Trick Day” in Illinois