Close inspection of statistics will tell you that there are many more Illnoisans engaged in industrial work than the total number engaged in farming. but in many parts of the State you would certainly find that hard to believe. Indeed. it can be said in all truth that Illinois is a thorough mixture of the finest elements of the past and the finest of the present. When settlement began. in 1818. pioneers made their way from the eastern seaboard and from the cotton States. a majority immigrating from the South. The opening of the Erie Canal. in 1825. brought an army of New Englanders pouring into northern Illinois and the State began to take on much the same political complexion as a crosssection of the country itself. Princeton.
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