Illinois

follows: Starting in the middle of Lake Michigan, at north latitude 42 degrees and 30 minutes, 'thence west to the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence down along the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ohio river;' and that the constitutions of Illinois of 1818, 1848, and 1870 defined the boundaries in the same way.

One of the states of the United States, being the twenty-eighth admitted to the Union, ' Civil government was organized under the Jurisdiction ot the United States, by the ordinance of the Continental Congress, in 1787, the present state being then a part of the nort Western territory. In 1800 that territory was divided, and a territorial government was created in the Indiana territory, including this present state. In 1809 the territory of Illinois was created, and continued under the same ordinance and the laws of the Indiana territory. For a fuller statement of the territorial history, see Ohio. In 1818 Illinois formed a constitution and was admitted into the Union. A second constitution went into operation April 1, 1848; and a third August 8, 1870. In 1913. an amendment provided for woman suffrage.