illinois
noun(Il-li-nois)
a confederacy of American Indian peoples of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin
illinois
noun(Il-li-nois)
a member of any of the Illinois peoples
illinois
noun(Il-li-nois)
the Algonquian language of the Illinois
illinois
geographical name(Il-li-nois)
river 273 miles (439 kilometers) long in Illinois flowing southwest into the Mississippi River
illinois
geographical name(Il-li-nois)
state in the central part of the U.S. having the Mississippi River as its western boundary and bordering on Lake Michigan in the northeast; capital Springfield area 56,400 square miles (146,640 square kilometers), population 12,830,632