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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Illinois \Il'li*nois"\, noun sing. & pl. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Illinois
noun
1: a Midwest state in north-central United States [syn: {Prairie State}, {Land of Lincoln}, {IL}]
2: a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
3: the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami peoples
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