Tower Rock, ageless landmark of the Mississippi
Salt mines in Illinois, an important early industry
The Great Sauk Trail across northern Illinois
Europeans come to Illinois : the Jolliet and the Marquette Expedition
A grisly reputation : John Moredock, Indian slayer
The Sucker State and mining Galena at Galena
The last trails of Chief Ducoigne and his Kaskaskia
Across Illinois with the famed birdwatcher John James Audubon
"Black diamonds" along the Big Muddy : Illinois' first coal mine
Waiting for the Second Coming : the Rappites Harmonie
A "perfect society" experiment : Robert Owen's New Harmony
The midnight ride of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
Stillman's run : a debacle of the Black Hawk War
Illinois martyr to freedom of the press : Elijah Parish Lovejoy
The singing plow that "scoured" : John Deere and Company
A trail of tears across southern Illinois : a Cherokee tragedy
James Semple's trackless train : the prairie car
Shaping the state : the Illinois and Michigan Canal
A French quest for Utopia in Illinois : the Icarians
Up, up, and away : two kids in a runaway balloon
An angelic hero of the Civil War : ary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke
Fencing the west : De Kalb and its barbed wire
James Buchanan Eads and his wonderful bridge
Elixers in Illinois : mineral springs, baths and resorts
Who threw the bomb? : the Haymarket Riot
Death stalks the rails : the Chatsworth train wreck
Quincy's pioneer in the sky : Thomas Scott Baldwin
A shortcut to the Mississippi : the Hennepin Canal
Illinois's most heinous murderer : Herman W. Mudgett
Chicago's master boodlers : Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Couglin
Of Ferris wheels and Jacksonville's Eli Bridge Company
"General" Alexander Bradley's marches on the coalfields
The man who electrified Illinois : Samuel Insull
John Alexander Dowie's Utopia : Zion, Illinois
"The most dangerous woman in America" : Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Chicago's new Iroquois Theatre becomes a fiery death trap
A big lake, a small town, and William Patrick Rend
Illinois's worst coal mine disaster : the Cherry Mine fire
Rock River Valley, Lorado Taft and the Black Hawk statue
Calbraith Perry Rogers and the Vin Fiz Flyer cross Illinois
World War I hysteria : the Prager hanging
"Butchery
wrought in madness" : the 1922 Herrin Massacre
The minister served arsenic : Ina's great scandal
Nature wreaks devastation : the 1925 Tri-State Tornado
Illinois's last hanging : the gangster Charley Birger
The nuclear age dawns in a Chicago squash court
Illinois's beautiful gorge : Lusk Creek Canyon
The Sun Singer and Robert Allerton's exotic park
Oquawka : the town that immortalized an elephant
Monsters and creatures of the Big Muddy River
An Illinois ecological Eden : LaRue Swamp-Pine Hills area
The Koster site : "Amerindians" and Dr. Stuart Struever.