Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He claimed that living in Illinois and Wisconsin -- where slavery was illegal -- had made him a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Ships can enter the Saint Lawrence River on the east coast of Canada and travel to Chicago, Illinois or Duluth,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

She studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston,Illinois for two years but left to go to New York City.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Then he was sold to a man who took him to Illinois and Wisconsin, where slavery was not legal.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Project scientist Harris Lewin from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign predicts there will be more laboratory cows in the future.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

So, for the first time in state history, the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield voted Friday to impeach the governor.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

David Robson from the University of Illinois Extension says the best results come from moist, richly organic black soil.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Last month,the organization, based in Chicago,Illinois, told twenty-four people that they had been chosen for the yearly fellowship award.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The other schools in the top five were the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

But some people might say that the biggest sport of all in Chicago - and Illinois - is politics.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

A doctor in Illinois remembers that before his internship, he wanted to work in crisis medicine in the emergency room.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Then,in the early nineteen hundreds, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign built three round barns that many farmers copied.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

David Wilber of Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois was the lead writer of a report about the study.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!

VOA: special.2009.08.09

For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

The University of Illinois in the United States has a project called SAWBO -- Scientific Animations Without Borders.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

He loved to learn.He was a self-taught lawyer who served for eight years as an Illinois state representative.

VOA: special.2009.02.09