Illinoisan
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Illinoisan
Example Sentences
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What would Durbin’s fellow Illinoisan, Bob “Chicago Pope” Prevost, say about all this?
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2025
The perimeter had been established because the jail was on night shift lockdown status, the Southern Illinoisan reported.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2022
“Justice reform is about striving to make equity and economic opportunity a reality for every community and every Illinoisan, because we simply cannot have justice without equity and opportunity,” Stratton said.
From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2020
The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale reports a letter signed by senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and the state’s 18 U.S.
From Washington Times • Nov. 4, 2019
Couldn't manage to get up a boat, unless we improvised one out of a log," said the Illinoisan, "and that would be a little unstable, I fancy.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry
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