By Illinois Radio Network

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois’ latest Top 200 list will have voters choosing between skyscrapers, cells phones, and Twinkies.

The folks picking Illinois’ bicentennial best-of list this week are choosing Illinois’ top inventions and innovations.

Some of them are obvious. Chicago was home to the first skyscraper, and later the world’s tallest.

John Deere started making steel plows before making big green tractors.

And Twinkies. Yes, Chris Wills at the Abraham Lincoln Museum said, Twinkies are from Illinois.

“There was a bakery up in the Chicago suburbs. They produced a strawberry shortcake snack, but because strawberries were seasonal they could only produce that during strawberry season,” Wills said. “So a baker hit on the idea of taking a sponge cake, and filling it with creme.”

The rest is golden baked history.

Wills said Illinois’ other innovation that will surprise some people is likely to be pinball.

“Pinball may not have been invented here. But all of the major companies that turned that into a staple of bars, playrooms, and arcades are all based in Chicago,” Wills said. “Pinball as we know it in this country would not exist if not for Chicago.”

The other choices on the list include barbed wire, the first TV remote and grain silos.

This round of voting is open until Friday. People can cast a ballot at IllinoisTop200.com.