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Hamburgers were 15 cents in 1955 when Ray Kroc, a former milk shake machine salesman, opened his first MacDonald?s restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill., after convincing two California brothers to let him franchise their business. The Big Mac was introduced chain-wide in 1968.

first appeared: 6/18/2000

Construction of the first Mormon Temple in Illinois began in Nauvoo (pop. 1,244) in 1841. The temple was built of native limestone and wood floated down the Mississippi River from Wisconsin. It burned in 1846, but several stones from the original structure remain at the site.

first appeared: 6/4/2000

Construction on the largest man-made lake in Illinois began in 1958 and was completed in 1967. The 26,000-acre Lake Carlyle was built for flood control. Today it provides camping, fishing, boating, and sailing opportunities for people in south-central Illinois.

first appeared: 5/21/2000

The rich earth of Grand Detour, Ill., stuck to the iron plow blades of Vermont farmers who settled there in the 1830s and had to be scraped off every few paces. When blacksmith John Deere arrived in 1836 he attacked the problem by fashioning a new, self-cleaning plow out of a broken steel saw blade. It worked, and John Deere was in business.

first appeared: 5/7/2000

The birthplace of Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, was a second-floor apartment on Main Street in the farming community of Tampico (pop. 801) in northwestern Illinois.

first appeared: 4/23/2000

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