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Bloomington
Prudential Snyder/Armstrong Realty Phone: 1-800-432-6971 Ext. 270 E-mail: Csranney@aol.com Web Site Bloomington/Normal, McLean County, State Farm, Illinois State Univerisity, Mitsubishi Motors, General Electric, Illinois Wesleyan University. | ||
Champaign
Prudential Landmark R.E. Phone: 800-397-2155 E-mail: martha@marthaleary.com Web Site Specializing in relocation in the Champaign County and surrounding Central Illinois Area. Please check out my web site for housing and community information. | ||
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Danville
Loop Real Estate Phone: 217-442-0300 E-mail: loop@soltec.net Web Site Vermilion Co. "The realtors that save you money" | ||
Edwardsville click here | ||
Geneva
Re/Max Phone: 630-769-8459 E-mail: KAyukawa@aol.com The Fox Valley of the western suburbs of Chicago. Historic, charming,affordable and lovely. Great schools and wonderful environment. | ||
Hickory Hills
Land Office Realty Phone: 708-599-8514 Full service agent ... Residential & commercial ... South & southwest suburbs as well as Chicago. | ||
Highland Park
Coldwell Banker Residential Phone: 847-926-1947 Highland Park Real Estate Purchasing and Selling Highland Park Real Estate, Deerfield Real Estate and all of Cook County Homes for Sale. View listings, real estate articles and FREE local area information. | ||
Lake in the Hills
Prudential Family Realty Phone: 877-220-5395 E-mail: CLLPROPERTIES@aol.com Commercial, residential, farms properties in Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Huntley, Dundee, Gilberts, Crystal Lake, Elgin, So. Elgin, St Charles, Geneva, Illinois. | ||
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Orland Park
Classic Realty Group Phone: 708-536-8200 Serve southwest Chicago and suburbs including Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Palos, Tinley Park and many more areas. Licensed since 1983. | ||
Palos Hills
Century 21 Ham and Associates Phone: 708-601-2748 E-mail: cen21brokr@aol.com 10 years experience serving the southwest suburbs of Illinois. Full service Broker-Agent for all your selling and buying needs. | ||
Peoria
Jim Maloof Realty Co. Phone: 309-272-3522 Peoria Real Estate Real estate in Peoria, Peoria Heights, and Peoria County. Search the MLS, view featured real estate listings, get home buying / selling tips and more. | ||
Schaumburg click here | ||
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Swansea
Coldwell Banker Brown Phone: 800-851-7544 E-mail: fizer1@midwest.net Web Site Serving O'Fallon, Belleville and surrounding areas. Full time agent for 20+ years, lifetime resident. | ||
Waukegan
Century 21 Maki United Phone: 847-336-7333 E-mail: c214dick@megsinet.net Web Site If you are looking for a home in Northern Illinois than give me a call. I specialize in first time buyers. | ||
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The two leading crops raised in the state, in terms of quantity and value, are corn and soybeans. In 1997 Illinois ranked as the second leading state in the production of both corn and soybeans, behind only Iowa. Corn is grown throughout the state and occupies two-fifths of all cropland. Land planted in soybeans accounts for another two-fifths, but soybeans generated 20 percent less income for farmers than corn in 1997. Wheat, greenhouse and nursery products, and a variety of vegetables are also raised. Illinois ranks fourth in raising hogs, behind Iowa, North Carolina, and Minnesota. A large number of beef and dairy cattle are also raised in Illinois. Most of the hogs are born and raised in the state, but many of the cattle are shipped to Illinois for fattening from ranches in Western states. Illinois also produces significant quantities of milk and cream and of eggs, mostly for the state’s large urban markets. Bituminous coal, crushed stone, and oil are the most valuable mineral products in Illinois. Together they accounted for three-fourths of the state’s mineral output by value in 1997. In 1997 Illinois produced 4 percent of the nation’s coal. The coal occurs in a huge, basin-like structure that underlies about two-thirds of the state, mainly in southern and central Illinois. The principal coal producing counties are Perry, Franklin, and Saline. Illinois has more extensive bituminous coal reserves than any other state in the nation. Despite the large reserves, however, coal production remains below the levels of output reached during the first half of the 20th century, partly because the coal is high in sulfur content, which contributes to air pollution when burned. In the middle of the basin, mining is carried on by the traditional method of deepshaft mining. Approximately two-thirds of the coal now produced annually in the state is from these mines. The remainder comes from strip mining, which is carried on around the edge of the basin, where the coal beds lie close to the surface. Strip mining has declined because of environmental protection regulations, enacted in the 1970s, requiring that strip-mined land be restored to its original condition. Oil, first discovered in Clark County in 1865, is now produced from a number of small oil fields scattered over the southeastern part of the state. In 1997 Illinois’ production of crude oil ranked third among the states east of the Mississippi River, behind Mississippi and Alabama. Production, however, is decreasing, and Illinois contributed just one percent of the nation’s total crude oil in 1997. A small amount of natural gas is also produced in Illinois. Among the other minerals produced in Illinois are stone, sand and gravel, cement, clays, peat, tripoli, and zinc. Until the mid-1990s much of the nation’s fluorspar, which is widely used in small quantities in the ceramic, chemical, and steel industries, came from Hardin and Pope counties in southeastern Illinois. Fluorspar mining has since ceased in the state. Lead, important in the Galena area in the first half of the 19th century, is no longer significant, mainly because the best deposits have been exhausted. Most manufacturing in Illinois is carried on in the Chicago area. In the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburban and satellite communities are produced huge quantities of electrical equipment, food products, machinery, and fabricated metals. Among the many other goods produced there are printed materials, chemicals, steel and other primary metals, transportation equipment, and instruments. Many manufacturing plants are located in the city proper or in such surrounding communities as Cicero, Aurora, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Harvey, Joliet, and Melrose Park. The Chicago area forms a continuous industrial and urban district with the adjoining Calumet region of Indiana. East Saint Louis, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, is another large industrial center in Illinois. Iron and steel, paints, and chemicals are the major products of the city. Nearby Alton produces explosives and other munitions, and Granite City is a center of iron and steel production. Most other cities outside the Chicago and East Saint Louis areas manufacture one or more industrial products. Peoria manufactures construction machinery, wire and nails, metal buildings, and sprinklers. Rockford produces machinery, transportation equipment, and metal products. Agricultural machinery is manufactured at Moline and at Rock Island. Decatur, known as the nation’s soybean capital, specializes in soybean processing, grain milling, and other food-processing industries. The industrial and urban areas of Illinois require enormous amounts of electricity, and there is also a great demand for electricity on the state’s highly mechanized farms. Of the electricity generated in Illinois in 1999, 49 percent was produced in steam-driven power plants fueled almost entirely by coal. Another 50 percent of the electricity was produced in nuclear power plants. Most of the coal used as fuel is produced within the state. However, additional supplies of low sulfur coal have to be brought in from other states. In 1998 there were six nuclear power plants in Illinois, of which one was located at Clinton and another at Dresden, and two each were located at Braidwood and Byron. Illinois produces more electricity from nuclear energy than does any other state except Pennsylvania. Chicago is the focal point of the complex system of railroads, highways, waterways, airlines, and gas and oil pipelines that serve Illinois and adjoining states. East Saint Louis, located at a strategic bridging point of the Mississippi, serves as a secondary focus of transportation facilities, particularly railroads. Much of the state’s bulky freight, such as coal, oil, grain, iron ore, limestone, industrial chemicals, and gasoline and other oil products, is transported by lake vessels and barges. The railroads carry bulk freight, especially where rapid delivery is required, and they are also important in the shipment of finished and semifinished products. Trucking companies serve all of Illinois. Chicago is the chief center of trucking activities in the United States. | ||
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