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This geoart is part of a nationwide project:
THE USA 50 STATE STAR GEOART celebrating every state in the USA
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State Fact: Thanks for visiting the Illinois Star. Not every person, place or weirdness made the state facts. Honorable mentions: The band Chicago had 20 top-ten singles. Bob Newhart started as an accountant in Chicago. Dan Castellanta (Homer Simpson) was born in Chicago and attended college in DeKalb. DeKalb was once known as the barbed wire capital of the world. Chicago dyes its river green for St. Patrick's day. Richard Pryor and Dan Fogelberg were from Peoria, different neighborhoods, different times. Walt Disney was born in Chicago. Sci-fi author Phillip Jose Farmer grew up in Peoria and wrote many of his stories there. The state's most popular nature attraction, Starved Rock State Park, Oglesby, is named for an extended battle between rival native tribes. If you have a suggestion for cache #51, post a note.
Credit: For some state facts, there is a geocache there. As a result, some of the state facts came from caching trips and personal observations. Thanks geocaching for sending me there.
The final has a free souvenir, of small value, a momento related to Illinois. Please take just one. To find the final, solve the clues using the state facts from the other 49 caches.
N40° 36.ABC W90° 20.XYZ
A = The second digit in Illinois' sequential number of admittance as a state.
B = The sum of the last two digits of the year the two-story outhouse was built at Gays.
C = The third digit of the year Evanston prohibited the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday.
X = The second digit in the number of courthouses Lincoln visited as a circuit rider.
Y = The fourth digit of the year the Great Chicago Fire started in O'Leary's barn.
Z = The number of inches after subtracting 8 feet 10 inches from Robert Wadlow's giant height.
The Illinois Star is a joint project of the Peoria Area Cachers and Central Illinois Geocaching Association. 
