Illinois Statutes Chapter 30. Finance § 565/3. Definitions

(a) “Public agency” means the State of Illinois, its departments, agencies, boards, commissions and institutions, and all units of local government, including school districts.

(b) “United States” means the United States and any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

(c) “Steel products” means products rolled, formed, shaped, drawn, extruded, forged, cast, fabricated, or otherwise similarly processed, or processed by a combination of two or more such operations, from steel made in the United States by the open hearth, basic oxygen, electric furnace, Bessemer or other steel making process.