Illinois
Illinois. A tour of the state of Illinois in 1947, from the Carl Dudley This Is Our Land series.. 1940s, Illinois, Midwest, river bridge, car POV driving on winding road along water, man sitting on bench with high rise buildings in background, busy city street with pedestrians, buildings and traffic, Springfield, traffic on street leading to Illinois State Capitol building, Abraham Lincoln statue in front of Capitol building, Lincoln Tomb, man and rubbing Lincoln statue nose, Chicago, cars driving on highway with Chicago cityscape in background, traffic and high-rise buildings on Michigan Avenue, pedestrians on crowded street, Wrigley Building, Merchandise Mart, steel mill, male and female workers adjusting machine parts in factories, Rockford, worker pushing plowshares hanging from hooks, Calumet City, workers performing maintenance on Pullman railroad cars, La Grange, diesel factory, diesel locomotive departing station, University of Illinois, students on campus, man looking through surveyor's level, man holding marker in position, coal mine, coal car, smiling coal miners, coal miners riding coal cars, farmer plowing agricultural field, farmer operating sprayer machine in field, freight train traveling near soybean field, hands examining soybean plant, hand picking up handful of soybeans and dropping, farmer on tractor pulling mechanized picker in cornfield, bushels of corn, Springfield Illinois State Fair, people walking on fairgrounds, amusement park rides, rubberneck bus, 4-H children and adults leading cows wearing ribbons in livestock show, blue ribbon wearing cow, woman putting ribbon on sheep, miniature train, harness racing, auto racing, conductor and passengers seated in train, people entering log cabin, Abraham Lincoln statue outside Illinois State Capitol building, passenger ship passing by Wrigley Building