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- Mathematics Standards (Illinois)
Includes examples. 01-07
- Mastodons - Extinct (Illinois State Museum)
Provides an article and a picture.
- Mammoths (Illinois State Museum)
Provides an article and a picture.
- Saber-Toothed Tigers - Extinct (Illinois State Museum)
Provides an article and a picture. Others have called the extinct cat sabre-toothed, saber toothed or sabertoothed
- Sloths - Extinct (Illinois State Museum)
Provides an article and a picture. Ground sloth pictured.
- Pleistocene Animals (Illinois State Museum)
Provides articles and pictures.
- Drawings of Each Type (Order) of Insects (University of Illinois)
Provides drawings of insects, but no descriptions. 11-01
- Labor History (The Illinois Labor History Society - Brown)
Provides a history on labor in the USA, starting with colonial times. Includes handouts and suggestions for integrating the information into classroom lessons. 2-02
- Tornadoes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - DAS)
"A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and pendent from a cumulonimbus cloud." 02-07
- -001 Illinois Governor in Corruption Scandal (MSNBC News)
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich embarked on 'political corruption crime spree' and tried to benefit from his ability to appoint President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the U.S. Senate, federal officials said Tuesday."
"A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democrat was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti." 12-08
- -01-09-09 Illinois Lawmakers Vote to Impeach Governor (CNN News)
"The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday voted almost unanimously to impeach embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich." 01-09
- Illinois (Yahoo)
Provides a listing of cities in the state. 11-01
- Illinois Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01
- Illinois (Weber Publications)
Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Springfield. 10-00
- Capital Punishment - Recommendations (Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment)
Provides facts about capital punishment and then recommendations. 2-03
- Illinois Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
Includes Aurora Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates, DuPage Community Foundation, and Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation. 10-02
- Illinois - Common Grant Application Format for Chicago (Foundation Center)
"The common grant application format has been adopted by groups of grantmakers to allow grant applicants to produce a single proposal for a specific community of funders, thereby saving time. Before applying to any funder that accepts a common grant application form, be sure to check that your project matches the funder's stated interests, and ascertain whether the funder would prefer a letter of inquiry in advance of receiving a proposal. Also be sure to check whether the funder has a deadline for proposals, as well as whether it requires multiple copies of your proposal." 10-02
- Algonquian Language Family (Native-Language.org)
Includes Eastern Algonquian Languages: Abenaki-Penobscot (Dialects: Abenaki and Penobscot), Maliseet-Passamaquoddy (Dialects: Maliseet and Passamaquoddy), Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Lenape Languages: Delaware (Lenape), Munsee Delaware, and Nanticoke, Mohican Languages: Mahican (Mohican/Stockbridge), Mohegan, Narragansett, and Wampanoag (Massachusett).
Central Algonquian Languages: Cree Languages, Attikamekw (Tete de Boule), Cree, Michif (Cree-French creole), Montagnais Innu, and Naskapi Innu. Ojibwa Languages: Algonkin (Algonquin), Ojibwe (Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway, Anishinabemowin), and Ottawa (Odawa). Kickapoo, Menominee, Mesquakie-Sauk (Sac and Fox), Miami-Illinois, Potawatomi, and Shawnee.
Plains Algonquian Languages: Arapaho Languages: Arapaho and Gros Ventre (Atsina). Blackfoot (Siksika, Peigan, Blackfeet), and Cheyenne.
California Algic (Ritwan) Languages: Wiyot and Yurok.
Lost/Unattested/Uncertain Algonquian Remnant Languages: Beothuk, Etchemin, Loup A/Loup B, Lumbee (Croatan, Pamlico), and Powhatan. 11-03
- Obama Background (CNN News)
"Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, born in Hawaii, raised in Chicago, was an little-known Illinois state Senator as recently as late last year."
"Now, he's the state's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, the subject of major features in The New Yorker and The New Republic magazines, the odds-on favorite to win the seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald -- and he's getting the Democratic convention's glamour slot, giving the keynote address in the heart of prime time." 7-04
- Olympics Modern History - Babe Didriksen (Sports Illustrated)
"At the opening parade, Didriksen appeared as the sole representative of the Employers Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas. During the ensuing three hours she took part in eight of the 10 events and won six of them to finish, singlehanded, first in the team competition."
"The University of Illinois, represented by 22 women, finished second." 8-04
- Dred Scott Case (PBS.org)
"In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories."
"The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom." 8-05
- New Theory Rejects Single-Ancestor Doctrine (Scientific American)
"Instead of one universal evolutionary tree, picture a three-trunk stand sharing a communal root system. A new theory of cellular evolution published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences rejects Charles Darwin’s Doctrine of Common Descent—the idea that all organisms are derived from a single primordial ancestor. Instead, Carl Woese of the University of Illinois-Champaign proposes that the three cell types that comprise life on earth arose from three forms of proto cells that swam together in a dense genetic soup, freely sharing their DNA."
"Indeed, such DNA swapping was the driving force in the evolution of unicellular organisms, Woese argues. Biologists have traditionally credited this so-called horizontal gene transfer with just a minor role in cellular evolution. But Woese asserts that only by sharing their genes—or evolutionary inventions, as he calls them—could simple cellular organizations have given rise to more complex cell designs. In the beginning, he says, primitive cells 'did not have stable genealogical records.' But eventually, these lines—including the three that spawned all extant life forms—reached what Woese terms the "Darwinian threshold," the point at which a lineage matures to genetic stability. Here the cellular organization became fixed, leading to a traceable cell line via reproduction. 'Crossing a Darwinian threshold leads to a more solidified, organized cellular design,' he explains." 12-05
- Happiness and Health (Lifestyle MSN)
"Dr. Happiness is a nickname given to Ed Diener, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Okay, he doesn't dole out joy, but he has studied it, plus other positive emotional states we're all capable of. And research shows that their benefits include boosting our immune system and defenses against illnesses ranging from colds and flu to cancer and heart disease. Here's a look at the emotions that can actually help your body perform its best -- and why." 12-05
- Christianity Today Magazine (Reference.com)
"Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. Readers can keep abreast of matters concerning books and culture, campus life, Christian history, Christian parenting, leadership skills, marriage, men and women, Bible study, preaching and spiritual help." 01-06
- -11-02-06 Yellow Button Allows Multiple Votes (BBVForums.org)
"Anyone who can get at the yellow button can ruin the election. It takes no password, no computer knowledge, no equipment."
"The formula is printed in materials that have been distributed to thousands of people. The machines will count millions of votes."
"Citizens -- not scientists or certifiers or testing lab authorities -- identified the problem and have now notified the California secretary of state, and emergency measures are reportedly being taken in California, but not yet in Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, or any other state using Sequoia Voting Systems, the third-largest voting system vendor in the U.S." 11-06
- -11-23-06 States Are Starting to Require Clean Energy Sources (USA Today)
"In Washington state, voters approved a measure Nov. 7 mandating that 15% of electrical power come from renewable sources by 2020."
"That makes 20 states and the District of Columbia with such requirements, according to the Department of Energy. Two others states — Illinois and Vermont — have non-binding goals on using renewable energy sources." 11-06
- Boosting Brain Power Through Exercise (CBS News)
Professor Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois in Urbana says "changing the size and the function of your brain is as easy as taking a few steps."
" 'We found in our study that walking will increase the volume of the brain, increase the efficiency of the brain and increase improvements in the number of cognitive functions such as memory and attention,' Kramer says." 01-07
- Is Everyone Capable of Happiness? (MSNBC News)
"Something somewhere is bound to make you smile, to trigger a happy thought, be it money, puppies, chocolate, the beach. But what's the secret to happiness? And are some more likely to possess it than others?"
University of Illinois professor Ed Diener is "the leading researcher on the subject. He says there are three main keys to happiness, the most influential being relationships." 03-07
- Coal to Liquid Fuel (Houston Chronicle)
"Peabody Energy Corp. has pledged nearly one million tons of coal a year and up to $10 million in development funds to an Illinois plant planners say would become the nation's first to commercially turn coal into liquid fuels for tomorrow's big-rig trucks, buses, barges or jets."
"The League of Conservation Voters says burning a gallon of liquefied coal releases almost double the carbon dioxide _ a greenhouse gas _ as a gallon of gasoline, "turning a compact car into an SUV from a global warming perspective." 06-07
- Brady, Matthew - Photojournalist (US News)
"Displayed prominently in the sitting room of Abraham Lincoln's home in Illinois is a wooden, two-lens contraption called a stereoscope—a device for viewing 3-D images that was the Victorian-era equivalent of HDTV. It was consumer demand for new images to view through this device that drove Mathew Brady to the battlefields of the Civil War." 06-07
- Microbes as a Cure for Arsenic in Water (ScienceDaily.com)
"Microbial processes ultimately determine whether arsenic builds to dangerous levels in groundwater, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Remediation may be as simple as stimulating certain microbes to grow."
"The concentration of arsenic varied inversely with the concentration of sulfate, the researchers found. Methane concentration also varied with the sulfate content. "We believe this reflects the distribution of microbial populations in the aquifer system," said graduate student Matthew Kirk. "Our analyses suggest the aquifer is divided into zones of mixed microbial activity, some dominated by sulfate-reducing bacteria, others by methanogens." Sulfate-reducing bacteria will consume sulfate and reduce it into sulfide. The sulfide then reacts to precipitate arsenic, leaving little in solution."
"If the sulfate-reducing bacteria run out of sulfate, methanogenic bacteria take over as the dominant metabolic force, Kirk said. Because methanogenic bacteria don't produce sulfide, there is no precipitation pathway for the arsenic, which then accumulates to high levels in the groundwater." 11-07
- -12-04-07 Candidates Respond to News that Iran Stopped Nuclear Arms Efforts in 2003 (MNBC News)
" 'The juxtaposition of this N.I.E. with the president’s suggestion of World War III serves as an important reminder of what we learned with the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq,' said Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, in a statement. 'Members of Congress must carefully read the intelligence before giving the president any justification to use military force.' "
"Neither Mr. Giuliani nor Mr. Romney seemed to address the idea that their past hawkish statements were based on intelligence that has proved flawed — reminiscent of the intelligence about unconventional weapons that led to the war in Iraq." 11-07
- -05-07-08 Clinton Fights on as Prospects Dim (CNN News)
"Obama's victory in North Carolina and Clinton's narrow win in Indiana led one of Clinton's most prominent backers, Sen. George McGovern, to switch his support from Clinton to Obama, Clinton campaign sources said."
"The Democratic presidential nominee in 1972 also said he urged Clinton to drop out of the race, saying it was virtually impossible for her to win the nomination."
"The most important outcome of Tuesday's primaries may be that Obama widened his lead over Clinton in the crucial delegate race. The senator from Illinois won a majority of the 219 delegates at stake Tuesday, allowing him to up his total delegate count to 1,836, CNN estimates, a 155 delegate lead over Clinton." 05-08
- -05-08-08 Obama Picks Up 9 Superdelegates (MSNBC.com)
"Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign." 05-08
- Cultural Differences in Views of Obama (Time.com)
"After years of growing political polarization, much of the divide in American politics is partisan. But Americans’ perceptions of the fall presidential election between Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator John McCain , Republican of Arizona, also underlined the racial discord that the poll found. More than 80 percent of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30 percent of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him." 07-08
- -11-04-08 Obama Wins (CNN News)
"The Illinois senator will become the first African-American to win the presidency." 11-08
- -11-06-08 Rahm Emanuel (Wikipedia.org)
"Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Illinois's 5th congressional district, which covers much of the north side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County." On October 6, 2008, Emanuel was named Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. 11-08
- -12-30-08 Defiant Blago Picks Obama's Senate Replacement (ABC News)
"In an act of political audacity, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named former State Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, a position Blagojevich is accused of trying to 'sell.' "
"The appointment was instantly rejected by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, who said he would refuse to certify Burris' selection, and by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said Burris would not be allowed to be seated." 12-08
- -01-11-09 Stimulus Debate on "Clean Coal" (U.S. News)
"Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for energy secretary, met this week with several Illinois lawmakers to hear their pitch for a stimulus-related project: the revival of a $1.9 billion advanced coal plant in Mattoon, Ill. The project had its funding revoked last year by the Bush administration, which at the time cited "restructuring" as the cause. Chu, according to one congressional aide, listened intently during the meeting but made no promises about restoring the project, which is arguably the world's most ambitious 'clean coal' effort, at least in conception." 01-09
- -01-15-09 Burris Sworn in as Senator (MSNBC News)
"Roland Burris took his place as Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, ending a standoff that embarrassed the president-elect and fellow Democrats who initially resisted the appointment by scandal-scarred Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich." 01-09
- -01-21-09 My Country 'tis of Thee (DailyKos.com)
"In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution prohibited Marian Anderson, one of the great singers of her era, from performing in Constitution Hall before an integrated audience. In response, Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes—father of the Harold Ickes who's worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton—to allow Anderson to perform a concert on the steps of the memorial to the Great Emancipator, our original president from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Anderson opened the concert by singing My Country, 'tis of Thee.' " 01-09
- Replacing Corn With Perennial Grasses Improves Carbon Footprint of Biofuels (eScienceNews.com)
"Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month. The researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies to determine how planting new biofuel crops can influence the carbon content of the soil. Their findings appear this month in the journal Global Change Biology Bioenergy."
" 'From the time that John Deere invented the steel plow, which made it possible to break the prairie sod and begin farming this part of the world, the application of row crop agriculture to the Midwest has caused a reduction of soil carbon of about 50 percent,' said Evan DeLucia, a professor of plant biology at Illinois and corresponding author on the new study." 02-09
- Replacing Corn With Perennial Grass Uses Less Land for Ethanol (eScienceNews.com)
"In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources – by a lot. Using Miscanthus as a feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S. could significantly reduce the acreage dedicated to biofuels while meeting government biofuels production goals, the researchers report. The new findings, from researchers at the University of Illinois, appear this month in the journal Global Change Biology." 02-09
- Study: Exercise Helps the Brain (CBS News)
"According to Bell, researchers are finding that exercise can do more than keep you fit; it can also make you smarter. One school in Illinois has developed a program that gets kids moving and learning."
"Although it may appear that these kids are working out, they are actually trying to adjust their brains chemistry to maximize their ability to learn."
" 'Kids who took P.E. before they took the math class had double the improvement of kids who had P.E. afterward,' Zientarski, explained." 'Ratey cites studies showing that exercise promotes the growth of new cells in the hippocampus, an area in the brain associated with memory and learning."
" 'Exercise promotes more than anything else we know the growth of new brain cells,' Ratey said."
- Softball (Wikipedia.org)
"Softball is a team sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball. Some key differences between softball and baseball are that softballs are larger than baseballs, and pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand. Softball was invented by George Hancock in Chicago, Illinois." 11-09
- 1-11-03 Governor Empties Death Row (CNN - Flock)
"Outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced Saturday that he had commuted the sentences of all of the state's death row inmates and said he would 'sleep well knowing I made the right decision.' " 1-03
- Capital Punishment - Recommendations (DeathPenaltyInfo.org)
Provides recommendations related to capital punishment, based on an extensive review of facts by the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment.
"In January 2000, Ryan appointed the 14-member Commission after Illinois had released 13 innocent inmates from death row in the same time that it had executed 12. Ryan asked the group, which includes "some of the best, brightest, and most honorable people in Illinois," to closely examine the administration of the death penalty in the state. His deep concern that flaws in Illinois's current policies would result in the execution of an innocent person also led him to declare a groundbreaking moratorium on executions."
The Commission released 85 recommendations, including:
"-Videotaping of all interrogations of capital suspects conducted in a police facility.
-Reducing the number of crimes eligible for a death sentence from 20 to five (cases in which the defendant has murdered two or more persons, where the victim was either a police officer or firefighter, where the victim was an officer or inmate of a correctional institution, when the murder was committed to obstruct the justice system, or when the victim was tortured in the course of the murder).
Forbidding capital punishment in cases where the conviction is based solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness.
-Barring capital punishment in cases where the defendant is mentally retarded.
-Establishing a state-wide commission -- comprised of the Attorney General, three prosecutors, and a retired judge -- to confirm a local state's attorney's decision to seek the death penalty.
-Intensifying the scrutiny of testimony provided by in-custody informants during a pre-trial hearing to determine the reliability of the testimony before it is received in a capital trial.
-Requiring a trial judge to concur with a jury's determination that a death sentence is appropriate, or, if not, sentence the defendant to natural life." 2-03
- Road Safety and Age (Fox News)
"At least 21 states have requirements for older drivers, varying from more frequent license renewals to vision tests. Two states — New Hampshire and Illinois — require road tests for those 75 and older, while in Nevada drivers 70 and older who renew licenses by mail must include a medical report." 7-03
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