{"title":"Illinois Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntique and vintage maps of Illinois, from 19th-century state and county maps to city plans of Chicago, Springfield and Peoria. Every print is made in your region and delivered free.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"illinois-map-1893-state-print-chicago-springfield-peoria","title":"Illinois Map 1893 State Print - Chicago, Springfield, Peoria","description":"\u003cp\u003eIllinois has a special claim on this atlas: Chicago, the state's largest city, was the host of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition that the entire volume was produced to commemorate. George Cram's Illinois map sat at the heart of The Columbian World's Fair Atlas, the book Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York, gave to its customers that year, pairing a statewide map with the exposition's own illustrated grounds and buildings elsewhere in the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is printed at 1:1,900,000 on a 23-by-31-centimeter page, with county boundaries in red outline coloring and both Greenwich and Washington marked as prime meridians. Chicago itself anchors the northeastern corner of the map, its position underscoring the city's importance as the fair's host and as the region's commercial and rail hub. 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This particular printing, produced late in 1874, is described by the firm as its most complete edition, hand-colored and engraved by the Franklin Type Foundry with noticeably more topographical shading worked in than the earlier printing issued the same year. The full statewide sheet arrived nine years after the Civil War's end, with Reconstruction winding down nationally even as Chicago, still just three years removed from the Great Fire of 1871, was rebuilding itself into the railroad hub the map's own emphasis on rail lines was built to track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the sheet itself, only Lake Michigan is named outright, giving Chicago the harbor access that made it a magnet for grain, lumber, and rail traffic from across the Midwest. Illinois had reached that lake by way of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, open since 1848, linking the Great Lakes trade to the Mississippi further south well before this atlas went to press. Springfield had carried the state capital since 1839, a distinction inseparable from its identity as Abraham Lincoln's adopted hometown, while Peoria, sited on the Illinois River, had grown into one of the Midwest's principal distilling and milling towns on the same water traffic. None of that history appears in the map's own sparse, railroad-first styling, but it is the backdrop against which the rail lines it does show were being laid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone with Chicago roots, Illinois farm family history, or a collection built around the earliest American railroad atlases, this sheet has a pull the state's later maps don't quite match. 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Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Illinois sheet in 1841, included in the 1842 edition of his New Universal Atlas, the last he personally published after three decades spent building a reputation as one of America's most trusted cartographers. Engraved by J. and W.W. Warr, this printing carries an inset of the state's Lead Region, highlighting the mining district in Illinois's northwest corner that was one of the era's most significant sources of American-mined lead. The sheet maps Illinois statewide, in the middle of a period of rapid growth as roads, steamboat routes, and the state's earliest rail lines were all being pushed outward from its established river towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lead Region inset singles out a corner of the state whose mining economy set it apart from Illinois's farming interior, a detail most general state maps of the period skipped. 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This sheet comes from the atlas's rare original printing, colored by county across a state whose railroad density already outstripped every one of its neighbors. Illinois is mapped here just seven years after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in a city that had rebuilt itself so thoroughly and so quickly that by this date it had already reclaimed its position as the nation's dominant rail hub, the very network this atlas was designed to document.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpringfield anchors the map as the state capital, a central Illinois town whose fame as Abraham Lincoln's adopted home only added to its prominence as the seat of government. Chicago dominates the northeast corner as the convergence point for rail lines radiating across the entire Midwest, its position on Lake Michigan making it as much a shipping hub as a railroad one. 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Illinois shows a set of oversized northern counties - Fayette, Edgar, and Clark - stretching nearly to the state's northern border and bounded by the Sauk and Fox Indian boundary, with Edgar County bending eastward specifically to take in Chicago and Fort Dearborn, then still a small frontier outpost rather than a city. Indiana's north is dominated by two large blocks of Potawatomi and Kickapoo land, with Allen County standing as the first county formally organized in that part of the state, while a vestigial Northwest Territory designation and an undefined Crawford County still linger on the map, delineated for the Ho-Chunk nation. 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Tanner conceived the project as the first systematic large-format mapping of the United States, issuing it in subscription folio groups from 1819 before the completed bound atlas finally appeared in 1823, and separate maps from it are scarce on the market today. This is a rare early state of the plate, identifiable by its inclusion of Illinois in the title and by nine newly created, still-unnamed counties shown with boundaries in western Tennessee, a frontier region only just being organized as settlement pushed toward the Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisville, Kentucky's largest town at the falls of the Ohio River, anchors the map's northern half and the network of roads and mileage markers Tanner records between major towns. Memphis and Fort Pickering, still fledgling settlements on the Chickasaw Bluffs above the Mississippi, mark the western edge of Tennessee's newly organized counties. The map extends the Mississippi River's coverage north to St. Louis and the mouth of the Missouri River, illustrating how tightly the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys were bound together commercially in the 1820s. Kaskaskia, Illinois's first territorial and state capital on the Mississippi's east bank, anchors the small slice of southern Illinois included on the sheet, a detail that ties the map's three states into a single connected river system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map suits a family with roots across Kentucky, Tennessee, or southern Illinois, or a collector seeking out Tanner's celebrated American Atlas, now scarce as individual sheets. The store also carries Anthony Finley's single-state 1823 Tennessee map; that narrower sheet omits both Kentucky and Illinois, while this Tanner edition captures the full tri-state Ohio-Mississippi river system and the unusual unnamed western Tennessee counties in the same pivotal year. 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