Summary: Illinois’ bicentennial commission finds ways to commemorate the state’s 200th with little time and limited budget. Illinois will celebrate its 200th birthday with statewide events, building projects, specialty Pepsi cans, stamps, rosé, apparel and even an officials brew, "1818 Prairie State Farmhouse Ale." For this anniversary, no major building will be constructed. Instead, renovations of the Executive Mansion, budgeted at $15 million, are to be completed, and construction of a Bicentennial
