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Show Illinois' Greatness Shown in Facts and Figures State Is third In population (7,- mineral resource. There is enoueh chinery manufacture and is well to the top in the manufacture of steel, electric goods, clothing, furniture, cement and printed matter. Its slaughtering and meat packing plants are the largest in the nation. 1 First in hard road mileage; first i in soy bean production; second in corn and oats; fifth in wheat; third 1 in combined value of farm horses, cattle, sheep and swine. C.ish income from marketings NiMH); crops. $.'i!)!l,) 1,000; live 1 stock and lives lock products, $717. - 1 71f).l)iHI 1 897,241 in 1940). Urban population, . 73.6 per cent. Of the 7,501.202 white persons, 900,373 are foreign born; - 105.553 from the British Isles; Poles. 133,700; Germans, 138.023; Scandinavians, 101,414; Italians, 93,244; Russians. 74,4fi4 Negroes number ,'ifi7,446. Twelve thousand, nine hundred and eighty manufacturers, value of products S1.7:J4.8i;0.7:; rank third. Coal is Illinois' most initmi lanl fuel stored under the state's surface sur-face to supply the world's need for the next 130 years. The deepest and largest bituminous coal mine in the United States is located in Christian Chris-tian county Orient No. 2. Coal underlies un-derlies two-thirds of the state. One of the leading oil producing states. A large producer of limestone, lime-stone, silica, ilunr spa r, fuller's earth and lead Illinois ranks first in farm ma- |