Prairie State

noun

1. Illinois (used as a nickname).

Example Sentences

Only a tenth of a percent of the prairie that held the soil together for centuries in Illinois, the “Prairie State,” remains today.

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For the “Middle of Everything” campaign, the award-winning actor traipses around the Prairie State wearing a jaunty blue beret and a gleeful expression.

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Prairie State Generating Station, Illinois’ largest emitter, will be allowed to remain open.

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And the 2012 opening of Marissa’s Prairie State Generating Co., under existing clean-air laws, reveals the economic and ideological struggle over the severity of the threat of climate change and how best to halt it.

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Prairie State has hired union tradespeople for a portion of the work.

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