#illinois

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#around #ask #because #children #constitution

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#baltimore #illinois #indiana #iraq #rebuild

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#age #doing #had #home #i

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#had #hair #i #i think #illinois

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#farming #fight #grandparents #illinois #kansas

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

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

— Jerry Costello

#illinois #particularly #service #southern #students

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#diverse #home #home state #illinois #our

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#i #illinois #middle #right #state