place_of_birth frank l. smith
Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio ___MASK11___ agricultural outputs to agricultural inputs . While individual products are usually measured by weight , their varying densities make measuring overall agricultural output difficult . Therefore , output is usually measured as the market value ___MASK11___ final output , which excludes intermediate products such as corn feed used in the meat ___MASK20___ . This output value may be compared to many different types ___MASK11___ inputs such as labour and land ( yield ). These are called partial measures ___MASK11___ productivity . ___MASK32___ is a state in the midwestern region ___MASK11___ the United States , achieving statehood in 1818 . It is the 5th ___MASK24___ populous state and 25th largest state in terms ___MASK11___ land area , and is often noted as a microcosm ___MASK11___ the entire country . The word " ___MASK32___ " comes from the Algonquin word for " tribe ___MASK11___ superior men ". With ___MASK18___ in the northeast , small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern ___MASK32___ , and natural resources like coal , timber , and petroleum in the south , ___MASK32___ has a diverse economic base and is a major transportation hub . The Port ___MASK11___ ___MASK18___ connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes , via the Saint Lawrence Seaway , to the Atlantic Ocean , as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River , via the ___MASK32___ River . For decades , O ' Hare International Airport has been ranked as one ___MASK11___ the world ' s busiest airports . ___MASK32___ has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics . The ___MASK10___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Great Lakes ( also called the Laurentian Great Lakes , or the Great Lakes ___MASK11___ North America ) are a series ___MASK11___ interconnected ___MASK17___ lakes located primarily in the upper mid - east region ___MASK11___ North America , on the Canada  United States border , which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River . Consisting ___MASK11___ Lakes Superior , Michigan , Huron ( or Michigan  Huron ), Erie , and Ontario , they form the largest group ___MASK11___ ___MASK17___ lakes on Earth , containing 21 % ___MASK11___ the world ' s surface fresh water by volume . The total surface is , and the total volume ( measured at the low water datum ) is . Due to their sea - like characteristics ( rolling waves , sustained winds , ___MASK14___ currents , great depths , and distant horizons ) the five Great Lakes have also long been referred to as " inland seas ". Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area , and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country . The southern half ___MASK11___ the Great Lakes is bordered by the Great Lakes Megalopolis . ___MASK6___ County is a county located in the U . S . state of Illinois . According to the 2010 census , it has a population of 38 , 950 . Its county seat is Pontiac . The United States Senate is the upper chamber ___MASK11___ the United States Congress which , along with the House ___MASK11___ Representatives , the lower chamber , composes the legislature ___MASK11___ the United States . The ___MASK72___ River is the chief river ___MASK11___ the largest drainage system on the North American continent . Flowing entirely in the United States ( although its drainage basin reaches into Canada ), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the ___MASK72___ River Delta at the Gulf ___MASK11___ ___MASK96___ . With its many tributaries , the ___MASK72___ ' s watershed drains all or parts ___MASK11___ 31 U . S . states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains . The ___MASK72___ ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge . The river either borders or passes through the states ___MASK11___ Minnesota , ___MASK47___ , Iowa , Illinois , Missouri , Kentucky , Tennessee , Arkansas , ___MASK72___ , and Louisiana . The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature ___MASK11___ the federal government ___MASK11___ the United States consisting ___MASK11___ two chambers : the Senate and the House ___MASK11___ Representatives . The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington , D . C . Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election , though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment . Members are usually affiliated to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party , and only rarely to a third party or as independents . Congress has 535 voting members : 435 Representatives and 100 Senators . The House ___MASK11___ Representatives has six non - voting members in addition to its 435 voting members . These members can , however , sit on congressional committees and introduce legislation . These members represent Washington , D . C ., Puerto Rico , ___MASK55___ , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands and the U . S . Virgin Islands . Dwight is a village located mainly in ___MASK6___ County , Illinois , with a small portion in Grundy County . The population was 4 , 260 at the 2010 census . Dwight contains an original stretch of the famous U . S . Route 66 , and uses a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb . It is about southwest of ___MASK18___ . I - 55 bypasses the village to the north and west . Natural resources are resources that exist without actions ___MASK11___ humankind . This includes all valued characteristics such as magnetic , gravitational , and electrical properties and forces . On earth it includes : sunlight , atmosphere , water , land ( includes all minerals ) along with all vegetation and animal life that naturally subsists upon or within the heretofore identified characteristics and substances . U . S . Route 66 ( US 66 or Route 66 ), also known as the Will ___MASK25___ Highway , the Main Street of America or the Mother Road , was one of the original highways within the U . S . Highway System . US 66 was established on November 11 , 1926 , with road signs erected the following year . The highway , which became one of the most famous roads in the United States , originally ran from ___MASK18___ , Illinois , through Missouri , Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas , New Mexico , and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica , California , covering a total of . It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "( Get Your Kicks on ) Route 66 " and the " Route 66 " television show in the 1960s . ___MASK18___ O ' Hare International Airport , also known as O ' Hare Airport , ___MASK18___ International Airport , ___MASK18___ O ' Hare or simply O ' Hare , is an international airport on the Far Northwest Side of ___MASK18___ , Illinois , northwest of the Loop . It is the primary airport serving the ___MASK18___ metropolitan area , with Midway International Airport , about closer to the Loop , serving as a secondary airport . It is operated by the City of ___MASK18___ Department of Aviation . ___MASK64___ Ives Cobb ( August 19 , 1859  March 27 , 1931 ) was an architect from the United States . Based in ___MASK18___ in the last decades of the 19th century , he was known for his designs in the Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles . A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city . Legislatures form important parts ___MASK11___ ___MASK24___ governments ; in the separation ___MASK11___ powers model , they are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches ___MASK11___ government . Frank Leslie Smith ( November 24 , 1867 -- August 20 , 1950 ) was an ___MASK32___ politician . Smith was born in Dwight , ___MASK32___ , in ___MASK6___ County He served as a United States Congressman from 1919 to 1921 . He was elected by the people of ___MASK32___ to the United States Senate in 1926 , but the Senate never allowed him to take his seat . He first ran for the Republican nomination for the U . S . Senate in 1920 . In that first year of suffrage , women ' s votes were counted separately from men ' s . He was beating William B . McKinley by 27 , 000 votes after the male votes were counted , but once the female votes were counted McKinley had won by 11 , 000 votes . McKinley went on to win the general election . In 1921 , Smith became the chairman of the ___MASK32___ Commerce Commission , which oversaw utilities in the state . He prepared to run again for the Senate in 1926 . At the time , ___MASK32___ had no campaign finance laws . Smith collected donations from several wealthy executives who ran public utilities , including $ 125 , 000 from Samuel Insull . He used this money to defeat McKinley in the Republican primary held in the summer of 1926 . Smith went on to win the general election held in November of that year , although Julius Rosenwald offered him $ 550 , 000 of Sears , Roebuck & Company stock to withdraw . McKinley , whose lame duck term would normally extend until March 1927 , died in December 1926 . The governor appointed Smith to fulfill the rest of McKinley ' s term . When Smith went to present his credentials as the appointed Senator , the U . S . Senate voted to not allow him to qualify as a senator , based upon fraud and corruption in his campaign . He tried to again qualify as the elected Senator in March 1927 , but was again denied . He finally resigned his seat on February 9 , 1928 . ___MASK18___ ( or ), officially the City of ___MASK18___ , is the third - most populous city in the United States , and the fifth - most populous city in North America . With over 2 . 7 million residents , it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States , and the county seat of Cook County . The ___MASK18___ metropolitan area , often referred to as Chicagoland , has nearly 10 million people and is the third - largest in the U . S . The ___MASK97___ is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River , approximately long , in the U . S . state of Illinois . The river drains a large section of central Illinois , with a drainage basin of . The drainage basin extends into ___MASK47___ and Indiana . This river was important among Native Americans and early French traders as the principal water route connecting the Great Lakes with the Mississippi . The French colonial settlements along the river formed the heart of the area known as the Illinois Country . After the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Hennepin Canal in the 19th century , the role of the river as link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi was extended into the era of modern industrial shipping . It now forms the basis for the Illinois Waterway . A census is the procedure ___MASK11___ systematically acquiring and recording information about the members ___MASK11___ a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count ___MASK11___ a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features ___MASK11___ population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . Coal is a combustible black or brownish - black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams . The harder forms , such as anthracite coal , can be regarded as metamorphic rock because ___MASK11___ later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure . Coal is composed primarily ___MASK11___ carbon , along with variable quantities ___MASK11___ other elements , chiefly hydrogen , sulfur , oxygen , and nitrogen . A fossil fuel , coal forms when dead plant matter is converted into peat , which in turn is converted into lignite , then sub - bituminous coal , after that bituminous coal , and lastly anthracite . This involves biological and geological processes that take place over ___MASK56___ . The Port ___MASK11___ ___MASK18___ consists ___MASK11___ several major port facilities within the city ___MASK11___ ___MASK18___ , Illinois operated by the Illinois International Port District ( formerly known as the ___MASK18___ Regional Port District ). The central element ___MASK11___ the Port District , Calumet Harbor , is maintained by the U . S . Army Corps ___MASK11___ Engineers . The Saint ___MASK62___ Seaway is a system of locks , canals and channels in Canada and the United States that permit ocean - going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America , as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior . The Seaway is named for the Saint ___MASK62___ River , which flows from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean . Legally , the Seaway extends from Montreal , ___MASK19___ , to Lake Erie and includes the Welland Canal .