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Excerpt from Illinois, the Prairie State The otsam of European imperialism has been ung on its river shores the ags of three nations France, Spain and England ew over it before it was won for a fourth nation by the bright courage of George Rogers Clark and held for it by the far-seeing Benja min Franklin. Illinois became a State and a member of the Union in 1818 - soon thereafter Bank of the Manhattan Company began serving its people just as for nineteen previous years it had been serving the people of the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.