| U.S. state |
| Cicero's home |
| Prairie State |
| Monopoly avenue |
| Chicago's state |
| Chicago's locale |
| Champaign's here |
| Land of Lincoln? |
| Spoon River state |
| The Prairie State |
| Calumet City's state |
| Where Reagan was born |
| Land of Lincoln" state |
| Cheap Trick home state |
| Where Bears and Cubs play |
| Where the Big Muddy flows |
| Algonquian Indian confederation |
| State where the Cubs and Bears play |
| The Ohio River forms its southern border |
| ___ Avenue (Monopoly property landed on the most) |
| Birthplace of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michelle Obama |
| Last release in Sufjan Stevens' aborted Fifty States project |