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(The Center Square) – Illinois farming was in the spotlight at a recent U.S. House Committee on Agriculture hearing in Washington D.C. Many issues affecting the farming sector were touched on ...
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(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers his 2025 State of the State and budget address in front of a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2025.
With regard to geographic placenames, the terms "up" and "down" generally refer to upstream and downstream with respect to a river basin, in this case that of the Mississippi River, which flows from north to south along the western edge of the state. Thus, the term "Downstate Illinois" may be understood to refer to the part of the state which ...
An enlargeable map of the state of Illinois. Names Common name: Illinois. Pronunciation: / ˌ ɪ l ɪ ˈ n ɔɪ / ⓘ IL-i-NOY; Official name: State of Illinois; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: IL; ISO 3166-2 code: US-IL; Internet second-level domain: .il.us; Nicknames Land of Lincoln [1] (currently used on license plates) Prairie ...
I-55 leads southwest 37 miles (60 km) to St. Louis and north 58 miles (93 km) to Springfield, the Illinois capital. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Livingston has a total area of 1.05 square miles (2.72 km 2 ), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ), or 1.23%, are water. [ 1 ]
With the state’s unemployment rate at 5.2% as of December – the national unemployment rate is 4.1% – and Illinois already being home to the second highest property and corporate income taxes ...
Burlington also has many veterans, compared to the rate in Illinois more broadly: 11.1% of Burlington's population has served, compared to 5.2% in Illinois as a whole. The majority of Burlington's veterans served in the Gulf Wars (1990s and/or 2001-). The median income for a household in the village was $79,531.