Illinois

Ereignisse (11)

• 1818

  12/3 — Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

• 1851

  1/28 — Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.

• 1872

  3/22 — Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.

• 1889

  6/29 — Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.

• 1925

  3/18 — Der Tri-State-Tornado trifft die mittleren Bundesstaaten Missouri, Illinois und Indiana und tötet 695 Menschen.

• 1930

  6/9 — A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

• 1946

  6/5 — A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

• 1990

  6/2 — Das Tornado-Outbreak im Unteren Ohio-Tal verursacht in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky und Ohio 66 bestätigte Tornados, die 12 Menschen töten.

• 1990

  8/28 — An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

• 2003

  1/11 — Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

• 2010

  12/31 — Tornados landen im mittleren und südlichen Teil der Vereinigten Staaten, einschließlich Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois und Oklahoma, mit einigen Tornados in den frühen Stunden. Insgesamt landeten 36 Tornados, was zu neun Todesopfern und Schäden in Höhe von 113 Millionen Dollar führte.