Brief Political History of Illinois

This video recounts the history of Illinois. It begins with the first people that made Illinois their home, continues with the first French explorers that traversed it. It then explains how it became a state out of the Northwest territories, how Chicago's strategic geography made it a manufacturing and meatpacking power. It continues with the labor strife of the late 19th century, violence in the early 20th, machine politics in Chicago in the middle of the century and its current challenges.

[@Venus03]

Will you do videos like these for Canadian Provences?

Maybe at some point. I wasn’t planning to do that right now.

[@piotr_jurkiewicz]

I'm getting RDR2 vibes

[@iandunn989]

I'll give a summery before the video starts "so any ways they went to jail for corruption"

unfortunately the end of it is very much like that, yes.

[@iandunn989]

@ I live here so it’s pretty much the story of chicago politics. Still waiting for JB to get a cell, but I doubt he will with how blatantly he violated his own lockdown laws.