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
