You might want to look twice before you jump in the water after you see a video that proves a water park in Illinois really did have an alligator swimming in it.
The FBI says that in 2020, there were 314 burglaries for every 100,000 people nationwide. However, in three Illinois cities, that number was a whole lot higher.
For nearly 70 years, a "metro area" was defined by a population of 50,000 people or more. Now, a change would make it 100,000 people to carry that designation.
The good news is that unemployment rates have been failing nationally, however, not every community has been able to share in the good fortune. In fact, one Illinois town ranks as the second worse in the entire country.
Hooray for Illinois and Wisconsin! We landed three of the ten spots when it comes to the most affordable places to live in the world! The least expensive town to live is in Wisconsin
Talk about bad luck! A woman from downstate Decatur will not get $50,000.00 that she won from the Illinois lottery, even though she purchased the actual winning ticket. The reason she will not get the money is because of the person she lived with.