2018 Poster Contest: Best of Illinois

2018 July 4th Poster Contest: Celebrating the best of Illinois!

Some things students thought are best about Illinois

  • Pumpkin fields (and Halloween)
  • The oh, so tall Willis Tower
  • 35,000,000 acres of trees covering the Land of Lincoln
  • Metropolis, DC Comics-declared home of Superman
  • The Water Tower that survived the Chicago Fire
  • Vandalia’s fire-breathing Kaskaskia Dragon
  • The delicious sweet-tart taste of a Goldrush Apple (the state fruit)
  • Vachel Lindsay poetry, including the lines : The sun is a huntress young | the sun is a red, red joy | the sun is an Indian girl, | of the tribe of the Illinois
  • It’s a state with four seasons – no boring weather here
  • Big, blue Lake Michigan
  • Grant Park’s The Bean
  • Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield
  • Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs and hot dogs
  • Chicago’s skyline
  • Canoeing the Chicago River
  • The Bahai Temple (one of ten in the US.)
  • Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford with 12 acres of streams, waterfalls, paths, and koi ponds
  • The 3,300 foot Navy Pier and its Ferris Wheel
  • Shedd Aquarium and all the fish
  • Great America Amusement Park
  • Sue at the Field Museum
  • Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum in Carthage and its Western Illinois’ artifacts
  • Corn dogs on sticks (we didn’t invent the corn dog, but we made it portable)
  • President Obama
  • A river that flows backwards
  • Chicago-style hot dogs
  • Pizza – thin, thick, deep dish, stuffed, cut in squares or slices, it’s all good
  • New friends on every corner
  • Amazing BSOA camping trips (bring your binoculars)
  • The Eclipse over Carbondale
  • Edgebrook School
  • Painted turtles found in lakes and ponds throughout Illinois
  • Stanley Cup champions The Blackhawks
  • An A+ at school
  • Pink hearts
  • Happy animals
  • Home-grown Christmas trees
  • All the people who live in my community
  • Lincoln Park Zoo, the nation’s oldest free zoo
  • McDonald’s
  • It’s long and it’s green
  • Milkweed to attract the monarch butterfly
  • Lots of things to explore
  • The different plants that grow
  • The Lincoln Cent (aka Lincoln Penny) first minted in 1909, the centennial of Lincoln’s birth year
  • Our wonderful teachers
  • Deer in the Forest Preserve
  • Pigs
  • Cardinals feeding their baby birds
  • Swimming
  • It has good hot dogs
  • All of its inventions like the TV remote control
  • Popcorn in red-and-white cartons, grown on 333 Illinois farms
  • Starved Rock
  • Fireworks on the 4th of July
  • Friends at school
  • The Fighting Illini
  • The bear that escaped at Lincoln Park and roamed the park at night
  • Ice cream sundaes
  • Twinkies
  • Hate has no home in Illinois
  • All that you can find in Illinois