Headquartered in Illinois is the largest city in the Midwest of Chicago with its sky-high architecture, lake beaches, excellent museums, restaurants and clubs. But, going further, Illinois seems very different: it is the country of "wide lawns and narrow minds" of Hemingway, the "land of Lincoln", and also the edge of dog-dogs, pies and cinemas in the open air along the Main Street of America.
Large cities: the capital of Springfield, Bloomington-Normal, Carbondale, Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Galena, Jolit, Nauvoo, Peoria
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How to get there
Two major airports of the state are located in Chicago - airports O'Hara and Midway. There are other regional airports in Illinois, including Springfield, Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and St. Louis
By train
Amtrak's railway network covers many cities in the state, but all Amtrak routes begin and end in Chicago.
In Chicago, trains arrive from the east and west coasts, north and south of the country: from Milwaukee, Seattle, Washington, New York, Boston and other cities. Trains following along the line "Chicago-St. Louis" and passing through the cities of Jolit, Dwight, Pontiac, Bloomington-Normal, Lincoln, pringfild, Karlinvil, sent four times a day round trip. One of the trains of this route, Texas Eagle, connects Chicago with San Antonio
Trains following the Chicago-Galesburg-Quincy route, arrive twice a day to Chicago from Los Angeles or San Francisco and follow through Salt -Lake City and Denver
Trains following the route "Chicago-Carbondale" depart three times a day round-trip. One of the trains of this route comes from New Orleans, following the cities of Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis. In addition, a daily train arrives in Chicago from Indianapolis.
By car
Illinois can be reached via the I-39, I-90 and I-94 via Wisconsin, I-74 and I-80 via Iowa, on I-55, I-57, I-64, I-70 and I-72 through Missouri, on I-24 through Kentucky, on I-64, I-70, I-74, I-80, I-90 and I-94 via Indiana.
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Illinois entertainment, excursions and attractions
In the south of the state is located one of the largest protected forests in the United States - the Shawnee National Forest, occupying an area of 1100 square meters . km . Shawnee, founded in 1939 by order of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the natural habitat of many deciduous trees, as well as other plants and animals characteristic of this region . Several thousand years ago, during the melting of glaciers on the territory of the present national forest, the Little Grand Canyon Gorge was formed, in the deep shadow of which grew relict species of arctic plants preserved in the forest since ancient times . Here, in Shawnee, there is an artificially created Lake Cedar Lake, formed by the dam Sed River Creek .
primacy of the state town stretches along the southwestern shore of one of the Great Lakes - Lake Michigan. Chicago - the birthplace of the blues and sources of jazz, as well as the embodiment of the very idea of skyscrapers. Chicago is a city of first-class museums, kilometer-long sandy beaches and huge parks, among which is the Museum of Science and Industry, the museum campus with a huge planetarium and aquarium, Millennium Park.
The capital of the state, the city of Springfield is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Here are the Capitol and the Presidential Library, as well as the house museum of the 16th US President and his resting place in the Oak Ridge cemetery
The largest of the campuses of the University of Illinois is located right in the middle of the prairies of the urban agglomeration of Urbana-Champaign, and the agglomeration itself , formed by the merger of two cities, attracts with its numerous museums, including the Champaign District Historical Museum, the Krannert Art Museum and the Museum of William and Clarice Spurlock. Illinois Photos (24)