Member State of the United States of America. Located southeast of Lake Michigan and on the left bank of the Mississippi River, it covers an area of 146,976 km 2 and has a population of 12,760,700 residents (2004). It borders the states of Wisconsin to the north, Iowa to the northwest, Missouri to the west, Kentucky to the south and Indiana to the east. The capital is the city of…
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Land between the Waters Illinois is one of the states of the Midwest, the breadbasket of the USA. Illinois is located in the Southwest of the “Great Lakes”, southwest of Lake Michigan. Illinois stretches from Lake Michigan in the east to the Mississippi River in the west. The southeastern boundary is formed by the Ohio River. Springfield is the country’s capital, the metropolis Chicago, the country’s economic center, is by…
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