Definitions of Illinois
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a midwestern state in north-central United States
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synonyms:
IL, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State
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American state
one of the 50 states of the United States
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American state
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a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
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Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
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Algonquian, Algonquin
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the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami
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Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
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