The Miss Illinois competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Illinois in the Miss America pageant. It started in 1927, several years after the initial Miss America pageant. The first "Miss Illinois" sent to the national pageant, Lois Delander, won the Miss America title. Including Delander, five Miss Illinois representatives have won Miss America.
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