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| Illinois Facts |
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Dixon, Illinois is the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan. |
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The first birth on record in Chicago, Illinois was of Eulalia Pointe du Sable, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable and his Potawatomi Indian wife in 1796. |
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The NFL's Chicago Bears were first known as the "Staley Bears". They were organized in 1920, in Decatur, Illinois. |
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