Illinois A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess the answer that pertains to the state of Illinois.

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	Hint	Answer
A	Second most populated city	Aurora
B	Team that was accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series	Black Sox
C	This city is prounounced Care-O	Cairo
D	Longest-serving Chicago mayor, 1989-2011	Richard M. Daley
F	1871 disaster falsely thought to have been started by a cow kicking over a lantern	Great Chicago Fire
G	Civil War general who lived in Galena, Illinois	Ulysses S. Grant
H	notable novelist was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899 before traveling to Missouri, Italy, France, Spain, Cuba, and Africa	Ernest Hemingway
I	Longest river that is entirely located inside the borders of Illinois	Illinois River
J	Major city that stretches in Will and Kendall counties	Joliet
K	Never put this on a hot dog	Ketchup
L	State nickname	Land of Lincoln
M	Great Lake Illinois borders	Lake Michigan
N	University located in Evanston	Northwestern
O	Main airport of Chicago	O'Hare
P	Al Capone was the most notorious gangster in Chicago area during this era	Prohibition
Q	Governor of Illinois from 2009-2015	Pat Quinn
R	Blue-collar sitcom set in the fictional town of Lanford	Roseanne
S	State capital	Springfield
T	Name of the biggest daily newspaper based in Chicago	Tribune
U	Nickname of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski	Unabomber
V	City in southern Illinois named after a European city	Vienna
W	Stadium where the Cubs play	Wrigley Field
X	Roman Catholic university founded in 1846 in Chicago	Saint Xavier
Y	Former meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century	Union Stock Yards
Z	Actress who plays Roxie Hart in the 2002 musical "Chicago"	Renée Zellweger

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