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Illinois
     The twenty-first state admitted to the Union, Illinois became a state on December 3, 1818. In 1865, it became the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, and in 1973 it becomes the first state to recognize a holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.
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