1. illinois - Noun
3. Illinois - Proper noun
A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. Carol Moseley Braun
There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois. Barack Obama
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them. Emo Philips
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. Carol Moseley Braun
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative. George Will
[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist. Alan Keyes