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伊立诺于1818年12月3日成为美国第21州
芝加哥市乃是美国第三大城之一，因为许多发明家都在这个「风城」 (Windy
City) 设立制造工厂，例如发明板犁 (steel
plow) 的约翰．迪尔 (John
Deere) 、发明收割机的赛鲁斯．浩尔．麦可密克 (Cyrus
Hall McCormick) 等等。而当地的「蓝德麦克那利」 (Rand
McNally) 公司也在1880年时成为世界上最大的地图制造公司。
伊利诺州，尤其是芝加哥市，拥有许多「第一」与「最大」的称号。例如美国最高的席尔斯大楼 (Sears
Tower) ，以及在1893年第一位进行开心手术的非裔美籍医生丹尼尔．哈雷．威廉斯 (Daniel
Hale Williams) 。在1891年，威廉斯也协助在芝加哥成立「勤俭医院」 (Provident
Hospital) ，这是一间包容各种人种的机构，能够让那些被排除在白人机构的黑人医生与护士得到医学训练的机会，也让芝加哥当地的黑人社群能够得到适当的医疗照顾。在芝加哥还发生过哪些大事呢？你知道伊利诺州还有哪些名人吗？
The city of Chicago became one of the three largest cities in the U.S. because inventors such as John Deere, with his steel plow, and Cyrus Hall McCormick, with his wheat reaper, set up manufacturing plants in the "Windy City." Rand McNally of Chicago became the world's largest mapmaking company by 1880.
Illinois, particularly Chicago, has many "firsts" and "biggests," like Sears Tower, the tallest building in the United States, and African American Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the first open-heart surgery in 1893. He also helped found Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891 as an interracial institution where black doctors and nurses, denied access to white institutions, could receive medical training, and where members of Chicago's growing black community could receive care. What other famous events happened in Chicago? What other people do you know from the great state of Illinois?
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