State coordinate
Illinois's Admission Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Illinois (IL) entered the Table 1 record on December 3, 1818. Card Blueprints uses December 3 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1818 is unused.
Coordinate: the 2 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/2-of-diamonds.
Illinois's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Illinois at number 21 of 50. 1 year after Mississippi (number 20, 1817). Alabama follows at number 22, in 1819. 1818 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 21 of 50
- Date kind
- Admission — admission became effective on this date
- Date used
- December 3, 1818
- Month and day used
- December 3 (the year 1818 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 12 + 3) = 28
- Coordinate
- 2 of Diamonds — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing December 3
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1818-12-03
Illinois on the record
Illinois ( IL-ih-NOY) is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago, located in northeastern Illinois. Present-day Illinois was inhabited by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years. The French were the first Europeans to arrive, settling near the Mississippi and Illinois rivers in the 17th-century Illinois Country, as part of their sprawling colony of New France. A century later, the revolutionary war Illinois campaign prefigured American involvement in the region. Following U.S. independence in 1783, which made the Mississippi River the national boundary, American settlers began arriving from Kentucky via the Ohio River. Illinois was soon part of the United States' oldest territory, the Northwest Territory, and in 1818, it achieved statehood. The Erie Canal brought increased commercial activity in the Great Lakes, and the invention of the self-scouring steel plow by Illinoisan John Deere turned the state's rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmland, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany, Sweden, Hungary, and elsewhere. In the mid-19th century, the Illinois and Michigan Canal and a sprawling railroad network facilitated trade, commerce, and settlement, making the state a transportation hub for the nation, especially in Chicago, which became the world's fastest growing city by the late 19th century. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois became one of America's most industrialized states and remains a major manufacturing center. The Great Migration from the South established a large black community, particularly in Chicago, which became a leading cultural, economic, and population center; the Chicago metropolitan area holds about 65% of the state's 12.8 million residents.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Illinois (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.
States that share December 3
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 2 of Diamonds
- Arkansas — 2 of Diamonds
- California — 2 of Diamonds
FAQ
- What date does Illinois use?
- December 3, 1818 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Illinois's admission birth card?
- The 2 of Diamonds. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.
- Where do the dates come from?
- Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.
Get your own coordinate
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Sources: CRS R47747 Table 1 (congress.gov, PDF R47747.16) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union). Optional Wikidata P571 cross-check via REST wbgetentities (no SPARQL).