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    The Territory of Illinois was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809, until December 3, 1818, when the...
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    Pritzker, who took office on January 14, 2019. Illinois Territory was formed on March 1, 1809, from Indiana Territory. It had only two governors appointed by...
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  • members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States...
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  • Illinois Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1812 to 1818. These are tables of congressional delegations from Illinois to...
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    Territory (1805) and the Illinois Territory (1809). The Indiana Territory was the first new territory created from lands of the Northwest Territory,...
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    1812, the Illinois Territory was the scene of fighting between Native Americans and United States soldiers and settlers. The Illinois Territory at that...
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    from Kentucky via the Ohio River. Illinois was part of the United States' oldest territory, the Northwest Territory, and in 1818 it achieved statehood...
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    The "Illinois" in the territory's name is a reference to the Illinois Confederation, a group of related Algonquian native peoples. The Illinois Country...
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    tribes of the Illinois Confederation to Christianity. Prior to the establishment of Illinois as a state, the government of the Northwest Territory created St...
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    Christian County. The original Knox County, Illinois, became extinct with the formation of the Illinois Territory in 1809 - or, more precisely, it became...
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  • List of former United States counties (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
    Madison Crawford County, Illinois Territory, 1816, from Edwards Bond County, Illinois Territory, 1817, from Madison Before Illinois achieved statehood in...
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    the governmental seat of the Illinois Territory (1809–1818), until the territorial seat was moved to Vandalia, Illinois, and in 1809 became the county...
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    the Illinois campaign. It was designated as the county seat of Illinois County, Virginia, after which it became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787...
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    Palestine is a village in Crawford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,233 at the 2020 Census. According to the 2010 census, Palestine...
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  • The Galena Territory is a census-designated place in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 1,500 in 2020, an increase from 1...
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    United States Northwest Territory (1787–1800), Indiana Territory (1800–1809), Illinois Territory (1809–1818) and the State of Illinois (after 1818). The geography...
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    after Nathaniel Pope, a politician and jurist from the Illinois Territory and State of Illinois. The first permanent settlement in future Pope County was...
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    Virginia; became the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1792. Illinois County; from Virginia; became Northwest Territory, 1784. District of Maine; from Massachusetts;...
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    organised the purchase of 26,400 acres of land in the southern "Illinois Territory," and encouraged settlers from England to come and join them. Among...
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    The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western...
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    Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of the United States. The American territories...
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    Nathaniel Pope (category Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Territory)
    of Illinois. He served as the Secretary of the Illinois Territory, then as a Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Illinois Territory...
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    Northwest Territory, Indiana Territory and Illinois Territory, and administered by territorial governors. In 1805, the Michigan Territory was created...
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    Bank of Illinois building, which is a state historic site a block away in Old Shawneetown Gallatin County created in the Illinois Territory period between...
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    of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,679. Its county seat is Robinson. Crawford County was formed in the Illinois Territory on December...
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    created the Illinois Territory on March 1, 1809. Illinois joined the Union as the 21st state on December 3, 1818. Names Common name: Illinois Pronunciation:...
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    (disambiguation) Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States. At the time of the 2010 census, the population was 7,284...
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    (pronounced Car-my) is a city in and the county seat of White County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River, where the population was...
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    of Ninian Edwards, former Governor of the Illinois Territory. Edwardsville is a part of Southern Illinois and the Metro East region within Greater St...
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    part of the Indiana Territory when this was formed in 1800. In 1809, it became part of the Illinois Territory; then, when Illinois was about to become...
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