Illinois - State Trivia Quiz

Can you guess this trivia about the midwestern state of Illinois? I'll have to make a separate quiz about the big city.

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State capital	Springfield
Largest city	Chicago
Nickname of that city	Windy City
County that city is part of	Cook
State nickname	Prairie State
River that separates Iowa and Missouri from Illinois	Mississippi River
Name one of the three largest suburb cities of the largest city	Aurora / Joliet / Naperville
City home to the Coronado Theatre and Burpee Museum	Rockford
Big urban park that includes Millennium Park and Buckingham Fountain	Grant Park
Great Lake touching Illinois	Lake Michigan
Prestigious university in Evanston	Northwestern
City that shares the University of Illinois with Urbana	Champaign
Tallest building in the world for 25 years	Willis Tower
US president born in the small village of Tampico	Ronald Reagan
Well-known comedian and actor from Peoria	Richard Pryor
Actor of Solo and Indiana Jones	Harrison Ford
Mob boss of the Outfit in the late 1920s	Al Capone
Sauk leader who led Indian tribes that lost a war against the US in 1832	Black Hawk
Neighboring town of Bloomington to the north	Normal
Tiny city at the southern tip of Illinois where the Ohio River ends	Cairo
Historic road that starts at 122 S. Michigan Avenue and ends in Santa Monica	Route 66
Event that killed 300 people and destroyed over 17,000 buildings in 1871	Great Chicago Fire
Event in 1893 which the first Ferris wheel was built for	World's Fair
State slogan, despite this person being born in Kentucky	Land of Lincoln
State motto	State Sovereignty, National Union

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