The population has increased rapidly from 12,282 in 1810 to 5,638,591 in 1910, placing it third among the states. More than half the people were born in other states or foreign countries.
The arsenal at Rock Island was established by congress in 1863, and is the best equipped arsenal in the United States, with powder works and foundries. When in full operation it can arm, equip and supply 750,000 troops. Fort Sheridan, on Lake Michigan, 25 miles north of Chicago, was built by the government in 1888, and beyond, at North Chicago, is the U. S. Naval Training Station. At Springfield is the grave of Abraham Lincoln.
History. The first Europeans to see Illinois were Marquette and Joliet in 1673. Joliet, La Salle and Tonti visted the region again in 1679, and in 1680 La Salle and Hennepin established Christian missions there. The first American settlers were from Virginia, which claimed the whole of the northwest, but generously yielded its claim to the United States in 1784, when Illinois became United States territory. It was organized as a territory, including Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, in 1809. In 1818 it was admitted into the Union. It suffered from the Black Hawk wars in 1832; and in 1840 by an uprising of the people, when the Mormons, who had founded the town of Nauvoo, were driven out. See Early History of Illinois by Breese; Illinois, Historical and Statistical, by J. Moses; and Illinois in the Black Hawk and Mexican Wars by Elliott.
Illinois Indians, the name of a community of tribes of Indians related to the great Dakota family, which inhabited the territory now comprised in the state of Illinois and also tracts of land west of the Mississippi River. They principally were Algonquins. History tells us that they were a brave, war-like race, who aided the French in their Indian wars, and fought the Sacs and Foxes on their own account. There still is a small part of the tribe on a reservation in Indian Territory.
Illinois River is the largest river in the state of Illinois. It is formed by a union of the Des Plaines from Wisconsin and the Kankakee from Indiana, and flows nearly 500 miles before reaching the Mississippi. It is navigable for 245 miles from its mouth. The chief branches are the Fox and Spoon Rivers on the north and the Vermilion, Mackinaw and Sangamon Rivers on the south and east. It is now connected with Lake Michigan through the Chicago Drainage Canal. It is proposed to open a deep-waterway through this canal and the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, from the lakes to the Gulf, and thus to the Panama Canal.
Iloilo (ē′lō̇-ē′lō̇), a coast town, capital of the province of the same name, on the southeast coast of the island of Panay, Philippine Islands. It was, until the American occupation, one of the three ports at which foreign vessels might make entry and take cargo. The harbor is safe but shallow, so that vessels must load and discharge by means of lighters. The population is estimated to be between 12,000 and 20,000. After the cession of the Philippines to the United States, the Spaniards surrendered Iloilo to the Filipinos who were besieging it. The place was soon captured, however, by the United States forces.
Imagination. This term is ordinarily used to indicate creative power of the mind. Psychologists commonly employ it in a somewhat more limited sense to mean the reproduction, in more or less original combinations, of the impressions received from the senses. They distinguish imagination from memory proper or memory in the narrow or technical sense of the term, in that the latter involves in addition to images a consciousness that these represent some specific experience in one's own past life. We can imagine the North Pole, but memories are possible only of places where we have been. Imagination is usually classified as reproductive or productive, according to whether its content is simply a reproduction of a past experience or a new construction. It is probable that these types differ in degree of originality rather than in kind. All images usually differ from the impressions that they reproduce in definiteness, vividness and feeling of reality. They also commonly involve some difference in the arrangement of the colors, sounds, forms or objects presented. When these differences become so great that we seem to have an entirely new concrete situation presented, we say that we have productive or creative imagination. The materials of creative imagination, as colors, forms, sounds, tastes, odors etc. are, however, all derived from sense-experience. One born deaf cannot in the psychological sense imagine sound. He might try to do so, but his image would be based on those sensations that he himself is capable of getting. Men differ very much not only in vigor but also in kind of imagination. (See Memorizing). Some image sights especially well, others sounds, others again touches, tastes, odors or motor-sensations. A good, all-around imagination often occurs. The value of imagination, especially of sights or sounds, is great. It enriches the mental life, making it more complex, resourceful and interesting. The practical use of this lies in that, when new situations are presented with which the habits of the individual are unable to cope, imagination comes to the rescue with alternatives. A farmer with imagiination, when one crop fails, thinks of the possibility of raising others or of different uses for his land. An imaginative
