The geography of Illinois (Google eBook)

Douglas Clay Ridgley

The University of Chicago press, 1921 - Illinois - 385 pages

Contents

• The Illinois Country: 1
• Geology: 16
• The Glacial Period: 24
• Surface and Drainage: 37
• Illinois River from Summit of Starved Rock: 50
• Mississippi Flood Plain and Rocky Bluffs Jackson County: 57
• Country Home among the Ozarks near Tunnel Hill: 63
• Weather and Climate: 66
• Average Monthly Precipitation of State as a Whole: 69
• Instrument Shelter and Rain Gauge Pontiac Livingston: 75
• Average Annual Snowfall: 81
• Ice Weighing Down Trees at Waverly Morgan County: 88
• Native Vegetation: 92
• Rocks Covered with Ferns and Lichens Johnson: 94
• Native Animals: 115
• Native People: 129
• Potato Crop or the United States and or Illinois: 177
• Andjal Industries: 179
• Distribution Map of Principal Animals in Illinois: 187
• Yorkshire Hogs University of Illinois: 193
• Mineral Resources: 198
• Coal Fields of Illinois: 201
• Petroleum Fields and Pipe Lines of Illinois: 208
• FluorSpar Mines Rosiclare Hardin County: 214
• Manufacturing: 217
• Chart Showing Values of Leading Manufacturing: 220
• Home of Avery Tractors Peoria: 226
• Transportation: 228
• United States River Steamer Leaving Dock at La Salle: 232
• Map and Diagram Showing Illinois Waterway Lockport: 238
• Map Showing Federal and StateAid Road System: 245
• Location and Growth of Cities: 248
• Chicago and Other Cities of: 254
• Bascule Bridge Chicago River: 258
• Haymarket Square Chicago: 264
• Looking North from Corner of Jackson Boulevard: 270
• State Street Looking North from Van Buren Street: 271
• Illinois Steel Companys Works Joliet: 279
• Map Showing Peoria Bloomington Decatur and Spring: 283
• Courthouse Former State Capitol Springfield Sanga: 290
• Lake Bash: 293
• Rock River near Oregon Ogle County: 296
• Other Cities of Illinois: 301
• Working on the Dikes East St Louis: 302
• Main Street Elizabethtown Hardin County: 306
• Government: 314
• Education: 333
• Illinois in 1920: 349
• Appendix: 363

Bibliographic information

• Title: The geography of Illinois; Regional geographies of the United States of America
• Author: Douglas Clay Ridgley
• Publisher: The University of Chicago press, 1921
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 13, 2006
• Length: 385 pages
• Subjects: Illinois; Physical geography