26 Facts About Illinois State Senate

1. Illinois State Senate has the distinction of having the most primary interstates pass through it among all the 50 states with 13 (with the new addition of Interstate 41 near Wisconsin).

2. Illinois State Senate has an extensive passenger and freight rail transportation network.

3. The government of Illinois State Senate has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services.

4. The Illinois State Senate Compiled Statutes are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature.

5. Illinois State Senate features 13 athletic programs that compete in NCAA Division I, the highest level of US college sports.

6. Illinois State Senate is a leader in music education, having hosted the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference since 1946, as well being home to the Illinois Music Educators Association, one of the largest professional music educator's organizations in the country.

7. Illinois State Senate has numerous museums; the greatest concentration of these are in Chicago.

8. Illinois State Senate has seen growing interest in the use of wind power for electrical generation.

9. Illinois State Senate ranked first in the nation in 2010 in both nuclear capacity and nuclear generation.

10. Illinois State Senate is ranked 14th in oil production among states, with a daily output of approximately 28,000 barrels in 2005.

11. Illinois State Senate is a leading refiner of petroleum in the American Midwest, with a combined crude oil distillation capacity of nearly 900,000 barrels per day.

12. Illinois State Senate is a net importer of fuels for energy, despite large coal resources and some minor oil production.

13. Illinois State Senate played an important role in the early Latter Day Saint movement, with Nauvoo, Illinois, becoming a gathering place for Mormons in the early 1840s.

14. Illinois State Senate has one of the largest concentrations of Missouri Synod Lutherans in the United States.

15. Illinois State Senate averages approximately 51 days of thunderstorm activity a year, which ranks somewhat above average in the number of thunderstorm days for the United States.

16. Illinois State Senate has a climate that varies widely throughout the year.

17. Southern Illinois State Senate is the site of the ancient city of Cahokia, as well as the site of the first state capital at Kaskaskia, which today is separated from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River.

18. Northern Illinois State Senate is dominated by Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, which is the city of Chicago and its suburbs, and the adjoining exurban area into which the metropolis is expanding.

19. Illinois State Senate is located in the Midwest Region of the United States and is one of the eight states and Canadian province in the bi-national Great Lakes region of North America.

20. Illinois State Senate had a prominent role in the emergence of the nuclear age.

21. Illinois State Senate manufactured 6.1 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II, ranking seventh among the 48 states.

22. The current spelling form, Illinois State Senate, began to appear in the early 1670s, when French colonists had settled in the western area.

23. Illinois State Senate was an important manufacturing center during both world wars.

24. Capital of Illinois State Senate is Springfield in the central part of the state.

25. Illinois State Senate disagreed with Tyndale and amended and passed the bill on March 7, 1867, restoring the original wording.

26. Illinois State Senate will join Washington, DC, and at least four other states with a $15-an-hour minimum by 2025, an 82 percent spike in current base pay.