Anthem of Illinois USA

[SpitballSparky]

Kane County reporting in!

[AccessDenied55]

@SpitballSparky Cook County My Friend!

[9999900004222]

Hello Neighbor =D

(Indiana)

[webqueen225]

This is sad... I live in Illinois yet neither me nor my friends know this song - geez i think it should be something we learn in music class! Honestly, we live here!!

[esoxexpress]

I see we have southern boys chiming in on this one,let me ask you,isn't your favorite line from this song,"When you heard your country calling, Illinois, Illinois,

Where the shot and shell were falling, Illinois, Illinois,

When the Southern host withdrew,

Pitting Gray against the Blue, There were none more brave than you, Illinois, Illinois,

There were none more brave than you, Illinois."?lol

[hax798207]

You again. If you look closely at Illinois it is kind of shaped like Abe Lincoln's head. Do you really have a life first of all. The only time buildings fell down in Chicago was in the Chicago fire of 1870. Everyone probably thinks you're really a stupid terrorist now bobbbbboble.

[bobbbbbable]

Fuck Illinois, it sucks balls, loser shit state. Yur state's shaped like a piece of shit, idiots. Yur prairies are stupid as shit, dumbass midwest. If ya didn't have Chicago, noone would care bout you. Butt fuck Chicago, too, pissy shit city, hope the wind blows your damned tall buildings down. Lincoln sucks, worst president of all, sucked at job and had sex with log cabins. Land of Losers who suck at life cuz they from illinois. Ya flags ugly, stupid eagle and shield. Songs piece a shit

[secondlifeundergroun]

Illinois rocks!

[AlabamaSoldier]

Wow, one of the better songs for a state that produced two of the worst presidents so far...

[thefrozenegg]

U lil southern bastard. No one even likes u, ya confederate supporter

[AlabamaSoldier]

As if the same didn't apply to you.

[thefrozenegg]

it doesn't you bastard.

[AlabamaSoldier]

Are you so sure?

[thefrozenegg]

yes, I am as a matter of fact.

[secondlifeundergroun]

WTF whats your problem people :P Chicago is the 2 nd biggest city in america :P

[iriemike420]

@secondlifeundergroun it used to be, its about 3rd now and getting close to being passed by 3 different cities in texas

[Baritone45]

@iriemike420 Chicago is the second biggest REAL city in the US. Los Angeles doesn't count, as Dionne Warwick said "LA's just one big freeway". And Houston? I thought Texas was going to secede!

[iriemike420]

@Baritone45 7/1/2007

population

estimate

New York, N.Y. 8,274,527

Los Angeles, Calif. 3,834,340

Chicago, Ill. 2,836,658

Houston, Tex. 2,208,180

[Baritone45]

@iriemike420 Yes, Mike. I know. LA surpassed Chicago in population sometime in the 90s and Houston surpassed Philadelphia around the same time for 4th. My half-joking point was that it hasn't passed Chicago in things that give a city character, including a soul, neighborhoods, mass transit, museums, four seasons, and landscape that is not dependent on irrigating a desert.

[WalkinWithJesus88]

@secondlifeundergroun It's actually the third...

[MyBfd]

@secondlifeundergroun Chicago is 3rd. New York City has 8.4 million citizens, Los Angeles, CA has 3.8 million citizens and Chicago has 2.9 million citizens.

But it used to be the second-largest.

[Motive11331]

@secondlifeundergroun 3rd

[buttersXkennyfan]

@secondlifeundergroun its actually los angeles.. yay california! (but illinois is where i live and like it here.... but i was born in cali.. so...)

[secondlifeundergroun]

@buttersXkennyfan Ok thank you very much :)

[hsmchick28]

@secondlifeundergroun Third...but go Chicago! Glad to live here.

[Niels827]

@secondlifeundergroun No. Los Angeles is.

[secondlifeundergroun]

@Niels827 Dude, I think I know that and it was posted 2 years ago.

[Gregourii]

@secondlifeundergroun 3rd Biggest Genius

New York City

LA

Chicago XD

[BearFan09]

I believe you mean one of the best and one of the worst.

Lincoln was a good conservative Republican that believed in human decency.

[AlabamaSoldier]

I suppose that's a matter of opinion.

We give Lincoln a hard time down here.

[BearFan09]

Well, I can see that.

[Baritone45]

@AlabamaSoldier As you normally do most good people.

[AlabamaSoldier]

@Baritone45 As I normally do good most people?

I'm not a grammar Nazi, but I sense sentence structure fail.

[Baritone45]

@BearFan09 Bear Fan, you need to read the history books. The Republican Party was founded as a Progressive party. There was NOTHING conservative about Lincoln! He and Teddy Roosevelt were two of the greatest presidents we had, both Progressive Republicans. The parties have totally inverted over the last century and a half.  The Republican part is now the racist party of Southern white men.

[BearFan09]

@Baritone45 If the political parties were split north and south, then why doesn't the map show it? States like Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wyoming, NH, etc are conservative and are in the north, and states like Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, California, and Nevada all went blue in 08.

[Baritone45]

@BearFan09 I, too am a Bear Fan.

Minnesota was one of 10 states to vote for Dukakis. Check 1992 and 96 to see Indiana sticks out like a sore red thumb in a sea of blue.

Read the 2008 map realclearpolitics /epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/

If you don't see the Democratic strongholds where most of the people live: North of the Ohio and East of the Mississippi, and the West Coast, then you need glasses or a geography lesson.

[Baritone45]

@AlabamaSoldier You're referring to Grant and Reagan?

[AlabamaSoldier]

@Baritone45 Actually, I was referring to Lincoln and Obama, but I'd be happy to include Grant in that list. I didn't know Reagan was from Illinois. So taking your word for it, Illinois has produced 3/4 horrible presidents.

[Baritone45]

@AlabamaSoldier Yeah, I know Lincoln really bummed you guys out by ending slavery, building railroads and saving the Union and all.

Your kind of folk have nobody to look down on but yourselves, now that blacks and other minorities have a chance to succeed if they work hard. And Obama is the embodiment of that. Maybe the "white supremacists" that are the core of the Tea Baggers should try working harder and feeling less entitled to everything because of the color of their skin.

[AlabamaSoldier]

@Baritone45 Not true. We look down Yankees, President Grant, Lincoln, and Obama.

And as for Obama, I was talking about his politics. You brought up his race. So, who among us is more racist, exactly? I'm confused.

[MyBfd]

@AlabamaSoldier Well, Lincoln was born and raised in Kentucky, Grant in Ohio and Obama in Hawaii. The only president to have been born in Illinois was Reagan.

[redhawk239]

@MyBfd yes but illinois is the state they chose to live and work in.

[MyBfd]

@redhawk239 Not meaning they are actually from Illinois. And furthermore, there are many Republicans in Illinois too. Chicago is just Democratic, and make out the vast majority of the population of Illinois.

[redhawk239]

@MyBfd What does the fact that there are republicans in Illinois have to do with weather or not Lincoln, Obama, and Grant count as being from Illinois? Also, our liscense plates say Land of Lincoln on them. His presidential library is in our state capital. The man is burried in our state capital. Regardless of where he was actually born, Lincolns life and this state are prety much permanently interwoven.

[MyBfd]

@redhawk239 The first thing was a respond to the 'we look down Yankees' thing.

As for the rest, that Lincoln, Grant and Obama being born in Kentucky, Ohio and Hawaii mean, that they very likely got a common political opinion from the area they came from.

[AaronApolloCamp]

God Save Illinois, not America!

[lightercynic]

what are the words?