I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!”

— Uncle Arnie Mamath

I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

— Newt Gingrich

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may…

— Abraham Lincoln

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down…

— Clint Walker

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that…

— Nick Offerman

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

— David Letterman

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater…

— Tracy Letts

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

— Jerry Costello

In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago,…

— Emory Douglas

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois…

— Hugh Hefner

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and…

— James Keller

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then…

— Abigail Washburn

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state,…

— James R. Thompson

I grew up in Illinois.

— Ben Zobrist