This Week In Illinois History: The Illinois Oil Boom Begins (Jan. 27, 1937)

from This Week in Illinois History · host Clint Cargile

They call it black gold. Texas tea. But Texas wasn’t the only state to dominate America’s oil industry. Illinois was once one of the highest oil-producing states in the country, and, for a time, the world.

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