The First 100 Years  1818-1919


1818  Statehood
1820  Vandalia
Mid 1800s  The Industrial Revolution
1832  Black Hawk War
1837  Deere's Plow
1860  Civil War
1860  Election of 1860
1867  U of I founded
1871  Great Chicago Fire
1889  Hull House
1907  Elgin Butter
1818  Statehood
1828-1838  National Road
1831  McCormick's Reaper
1836-1848  I and M Canal
1839  Springfield Capital
1851  Illinois Central Railroad
1865  Chicago Union Stockyard
1870s  Entering the Golden Age
1874  Barbed Wire
1893  Columbian Exposition held in Chicago