Welcome to Illinois

Historical marker location:

6930 Ohio River Scenic Byway, Brookport, Illinois

( Marker is on Ohio River Scenic Byway (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1988

Illinois is the birthplace of several famous people, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, and writer Ernest Hemingway.