Does Illinois observe Daylight Saving Time? Like most states in the USA, Daylight-Saving Time (DST) is observed in Illinois, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour to Central Daylight Time (CDT); which is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-5).
1 Remember that both independent and dependent clauses have a subject and a verb. 2  Only an independent clause can function on its own as a sentence.  Dependent clauses by themselves are sentence fragments; they need an independent clause to make them whole.
Definition of dependent clause. grammar. : a clause that does not form a simple sentence by itself and that is connected to the main clause of a sentence : subordinate clause.