Illinois

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Illinois
Illinois
State
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USPS abbreviation	IL
ISO 3166 code	US-IL
Traditional abbreviation	Ill.
Latitude	36° 58′ N to 42° 30′ N
Longitude	87° 30′ W to 91° 31′ W
Website	illinois.gov

Illinois (/ˌɪlɪˈnɔɪ/ ^ⓘ IL-ih-NOY) is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south.^[b] Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago in the northeast.

Present-day Illinois was inhabited by

Sweden and elsewhere. In the mid-19th century, the Illinois and Michigan Canal and a sprawling railroad network facilitated trade, commerce, and settlement, making the state a transportation hub for the nation.^[6] By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois became one of America's most industrialized states and remains a major manufacturing center.^[7] The Great Migration from the South established a large Black community, particularly in Chicago, which became a leading cultural, economic, and population center; its metropolitan area, informally referred to as Chicagoland

, holds about 65% of the state's 12.8 million residents.

Two

University of Illinois, and Northwestern University. Three U.S. presidents have been elected while residents of Illinois: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack Obama; additionally, Ronald Reagan was born and raised in the state. Illinois honors Lincoln with its official state slogan Land of Lincoln.^[8]^[9] The state is the site of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield and the future home of the Barack Obama Presidential Center

in Chicago.

Illinois has a highly diverse

microcosm of the United States and a bellwether in American culture, exemplified by the phrase Will it play in Peoria?.^[11]

Etymology

"Illinois" is the modern spelling for the early

Catholic missionaries and explorers' name for the Illinois Native Americans, a name that was spelled in many different ways in the early records.^[12]

American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant 'man' or 'men' in the

Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms.^[16]^[17]

History

Pre-European

Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois

plaza larger than 35 football fields,^[18] and a woodhenge of sacred cedar, all in a planned design expressing the culture's cosmology. Monks Mound, the center of the site, is the largest Pre-Columbian structure north of the Valley of Mexico. It is 100 ft (30 m) high, 951 ft (290 m) long, 836 ft (255 m) wide, and covers 13.8 acres (5.6 ha).^[19] It contains about 814,000 cu yd (622,000 m³) of earth.^[20] It was topped by a structure thought to have measured about 105 ft (32 m) in length and 48 ft (15 m) in width, covered an area 5,000 sq ft (460 m²), and been as much as 50 ft (15 m) high, making its peak 150 ft (46 m) above the level of the plaza. The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered by archaeologists at Cahokia include elaborate ceramics, finely sculptured stonework, carefully embossed and engraved copper and mica sheets, and one funeral blanket for an important chief fashioned from 20,000 shell beads. These artifacts indicate that Cahokia was truly an urban center, with clustered housing, markets, and specialists in toolmaking, hide dressing, potting, jewelry making, shell engraving, weaving and salt making.^[21]

The civilization vanished in the 15th century for unknown reasons, but historians and archeologists have speculated that the people depleted the area of resources. Many indigenous tribes engaged in constant warfare. According to Suzanne Austin Alchon, "At one site in the central

Kickapoo, Mascouten, Piankeshaw, Shawnee, Wea, and Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) came into the area from the east and north around the Great Lakes.^[25]^[26]

European exploration and settlement prior to 1800

Guillaume de L'Isle^[27]

French explorers

St. Louis, Missouri, to evade British rule.^[28]

A few British soldiers were posted in Illinois, but few British or American settlers moved there, as the Crown made it part of the territory reserved for Indians west of the Appalachians, and then part of the

Illinois County for Virginia. In a compromise, Virginia (and other states that made various claims) ceded the area to the new United States in the 1780s and it became part of the Northwest Territory, administered by the federal government and later organized as states.^[28]

19th century

Prior to statehood

The Illinois-Wabash Company was an early claimant to much of Illinois. The Illinois Territory was created on February 3, 1809, with its capital at Kaskaskia, an early French settlement.

During the discussions leading up to Illinois's

lead mining region near Galena

. More importantly, it added nearly 50 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and the Chicago River. Pope and others envisioned a canal that would connect the Chicago and Illinois rivers and thus connect the Great Lakes to the Mississippi.

The State of Illinois prior to the Civil War

In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. The capital remained at Kaskaskia, headquartered in a small building rented by the state. In 1819,

fifth capitol building was constructed. A sixth capitol

building was erected in 1867, which continues to serve as the Illinois capitol today.

Though it was ostensibly a "

free state", there was nonetheless slavery in Illinois. The ethnic French had owned black slaves since the 1720s, and American settlers had already brought slaves into the area from Kentucky. Slavery was nominally banned by the Northwest Ordinance, but that was not enforced for those already holding slaves. When Illinois became a state in 1818, the Ordinance no longer applied, and about 900 slaves were held in the state. As the southern part of the state, later known as "Egypt" or "Little Egypt",^[31]^[32] was largely settled by migrants from the South, the section was hostile to free blacks. Edward Coles, the second Governor of Illinois who was born in Virginia, participated in a campaign to block extending existing slavery in Illinois after winning the 1822 Illinois gubernatorial election. In 1824, state residents voted against making slavery legal by a vote of 6640 against to 4972 for.^[33]

Still, most residents opposed allowing free blacks as permanent residents. Some settlers brought in slaves seasonally or as house servants.[34] The Illinois Constitution of 1848 was written with a provision for exclusionary laws to be passed. In 1853, John A. Logan helped pass a law to prohibit all African Americans, including freedmen, from settling in the state.^[35]

The

winter of 1830–1831 is called the "Winter of the Deep Snow";^[36] a sudden, deep snowfall blanketed the state, making travel impossible for the rest of the winter, and many travelers perished. Several severe winters followed, including the "Winter of the Sudden Freeze". On December 20, 1836, a fast-moving cold front passed through, freezing puddles in minutes and killing many travelers who could not reach shelter. The adverse weather resulted in crop failures in the northern part of the state. The southern part of the state shipped food north, and this may have contributed to its name, "Little Egypt", after the Biblical story of Joseph in Egypt supplying grain to his brothers.^[37]

In 1832, the

Kickapoo Indian tribes, who had been forced to leave their homes and relocate to Iowa in 1831. The tribes had lost their territory east of the Mississippi river in Illinois under a disputed treaty in 1804. The Indians, under Sauk Chief Black Hawk, attempted to return to Illinois in April 1832 to reclaim this land. They were attacked and defeated by the U.S. Militia and rival tribes allied with the US forces, including the Potawatomi, Dakota, Menominee, and Ho-Chunk. The survivors of Black Hawk's band were forced back to Iowa.^[38] This represented the end of Indian resistance to white settlement in the Chicago and Northern Illinois regions.^[39] By 1832, when the last Indian lands in Illinois were ceded to the United States, the indigenous population of the state had been reduced by infectious diseases, warfare, and forced westward removal to only one village with fewer than 300 inhabitants.^[24]

By 1839, the

was killed in the Carthage Jail, about 30 miles away from Nauvoo. Following a succession crisis, Brigham Young led most Latter Day Saints out of Illinois in a mass exodus to present-day Utah

; after close to six years of rapid development, Nauvoo quickly declined afterward.

After it was established in 1833, Chicago gained prominence as a Great Lakes port, and then as an Illinois and Michigan Canal port after 1848, and as a rail hub soon afterward. By 1857, Chicago was Illinois's largest city.^[28] With the tremendous growth of mines and factories in the state in the 19th century, Illinois was the ground for the formation of labor unions in the United States.

In 1847, after lobbying by Dorothea L. Dix, Illinois became one of the first states to establish a system of state-supported treatment of mental illness and disabilities, replacing local almshouses. Dix came into this effort after having met J. O. King, a Jacksonville, Illinois businessman, who invited her to Illinois, where he had been working to build an asylum for the insane. With the lobbying expertise of Dix, plans for the Jacksonville State Hospital (now known as the Jacksonville Developmental Center) were signed into law on March 1, 1847.^[42]

Civil War and after

During the

Union Army, a figure surpassed by only New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Beginning with President Abraham Lincoln's first call for troops and continuing throughout the war, Illinois mustered 150 infantry regiments, which were numbered from the 7th to the 156th regiments. Seventeen cavalry regiments were also gathered, as well as two light artillery regiments.^[43] The town of Cairo, at the southern tip of the state at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, served as a strategically important supply base and training center for the Union army. For several months, both General Grant and Admiral Foote

had headquarters in Cairo.

During the Civil War, and more so afterwards, Chicago's population skyrocketed, which increased its prominence. The Pullman Strike and Haymarket Riot, in particular, greatly influenced the development of the American labor movement. From Sunday, October 8, 1871, until Tuesday, October 10, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire burned in downtown Chicago, destroying four sq mi (10 km²).^[44]

20th century

At the turn of the 20th century, Illinois had a population of nearly 5 million. Many people from other parts of the country were attracted to the state by employment caused by the expanding industrial base. Whites were 98% of the state's population.^[45] Bolstered by continued immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and by the African-American Great Migration from the South, Illinois grew and emerged as one of the most important states in the union. By the end of the century, the population had reached 12.4 million.

The

Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The seaway and the Illinois Waterway connected Chicago to both the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean. In 1960, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, which was demolished in 1984.^[47] In 1985 a replica was built on the same site to recreate how the original one looked.^[47] Though this replica was demolished in 2017, due to repeated flooding of the building.^[48]^[49]

Illinois had a prominent role in the emergence of the

Dresden 1, was dedicated near Morris. In 1967, Fermilab, a national nuclear research facility near Batavia, opened a particle accelerator, which was the world's largest for over 40 years. With eleven plants currently operating, Illinois leads all states in the amount of electricity generated from nuclear power.^[50]^[51]

In 1961, Illinois became the first state in the nation to adopt the recommendation of the

fourth constitution was adopted in 1970, replacing the 1870 document.^[53]

The first Farm Aid concert was held in Champaign to benefit American farmers, in 1985. The worst upper Mississippi River flood of the century, the Great Flood of 1993, inundated many towns and thousands of acres of farmland.^[28]

21st century

Illinois entered the 21st century under Republican Governor George Ryan. Near the end of his term in January 2003, following a string of high-profile exonerations, Ryan commuted all death sentences in the state.^[54]

The 2002 election brought Democrat Rod Blagojevich to the governor's mansion. It also brought future president Barack Obama into a committee leadership position in the Illinois Senate, where he drafted the Health Care Justice Act, a forerunner of the Affordable Care Act.^[55] Obama's election to the presidency in Blagojevich's second term set off a chain of events culminating in Blagojevich's impeachment, trial, and subsequent criminal conviction and imprisonment, making Blagojevich the second consecutive Illinois governor to be convicted on federal corruption charges.^[56]

Blagojevich's replacement Pat Quinn was defeated by Republican Bruce Rauner in the 2014 election. Disagreements between the governor and legislature over budgetary policy led to the Illinois Budget Impasse, a 793-day period stretching from 2015 to 2018 in which the state had no budget and struggled to pay its bills.^[57]

On August 28, 2017, Rauner signed a bill into law that prohibited state and local police from arresting anyone solely due to their immigration status or due to federal detainers.^[58]^[59] Some fellow Republicans criticized Rauner for his action, claiming the bill made Illinois a sanctuary state.^[60]

In the

J. B. Pritzker, returning the state government to a Democratic trifecta.^[61] In January 2020 the state legalized marijuana.^[62] On March 9, 2020, Pritzker issued a disaster proclamation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He ended the state of emergency in May 2023.^[63]

Geography

Illinois is located in the

exclave of Illinois, lying west of the Mississippi and reachable only from Missouri. The state's northern border with Wisconsin is fixed at 42° 30′ north latitude. The northeastern border of Illinois lies in Lake Michigan, within which Illinois shares a water boundary with the state of Michigan, as well as Wisconsin and Indiana.^[25]

Topography

Though Illinois lies entirely in the Interior Plains, it does have some minor variation in its elevation. In extreme northwestern Illinois, the Driftless Area, a region of unglaciated and therefore higher and more rugged topography, occupies a small part of the state. Southern Illinois includes the hilly areas around the Shawnee National Forest.

Charles Mound, located in the Driftless region, has the state's highest natural elevation above sea level at 1,235 ft (376 m). Other highlands include the Shawnee Hills in the south, and there is varying topography along its rivers; the Illinois River bisects the state northeast to southwest. The floodplain on the Mississippi River from Alton to the Kaskaskia River is known as the American Bottom.

Geology

During the early part of the

Paleozoic Era, the area that would one day become Illinois was submerged beneath a shallow sea and located near the Equator. Diverse marine life lived at this time, including trilobites, brachiopods, and crinoids. Changing environmental conditions led to the formation of large coal swamps in the Carboniferous

.

Illinois was above sea level for at least part of the Mesozoic, but by its end was again submerged by the Western Interior Seaway. This receded by the Eocene Epoch.

During the

Pleistocene Epoch, vast ice sheets covered much of Illinois, with only the Driftless Area remaining exposed. These glaciers carved the basin of Lake Michigan and left behind traces of ancient glacial lakes and moraines.^[65]

Divisions

Illinois has three major geographical divisions. Northern Illinois is dominated by Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, which is the city of Chicago and its suburbs, and the adjoining exurban area into which the metropolis is expanding. As defined by the federal government, the Chicago metro area includes several counties in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and has a population of over 9.8 million. Chicago itself is a cosmopolitan city, densely populated, industrialized, the transportation hub of the nation, and settled by a wide variety of ethnic groups. The city of Rockford, Illinois's third-largest city and center of the state's fourth largest metropolitan area, sits along Interstates 39 and 90 some 75 mi (121 km) northwest of Chicago. The Quad Cities region, located along the Mississippi River in northern Illinois, had a population of 381,342 in 2011.

The midsection of Illinois is the second major division, called

Bloomington-Normal; and Champaign-Urbana.^[25]

The third division is

Metro-East. The other somewhat significant concentration of population in Southern Illinois is the Carbondale-Marion-Herrin, Illinois Combined Statistical Area centered on Carbondale and Marion, a two-county area that is home to 123,272 residents.^[25] A portion of southeastern Illinois is part of the extended Evansville, Indiana

, Metro Area, locally referred to as the Tri-State with Indiana and Kentucky. Seven Illinois counties are in the area.

In addition to these three, largely latitudinally defined divisions, all of the region outside the Chicago metropolitan area is often called "downstate" Illinois. This term is flexible, but is generally meant to mean everything outside the influence of the Chicago area. Thus, some cities in Northern Illinois, such as DeKalb, which is west of Chicago, and Rockford—which is actually north of Chicago—are sometimes incorrectly considered to be 'downstate'.

Climate

Illinois has a climate that varies widely throughout the year. Because of its nearly 400-mile distance between its northernmost and southernmost extremes, as well as its mid-continental situation, most of Illinois has a

January 2019 North American cold wave at a weather station near Mount Carroll,^[69]^[70] and confirmed on March 5, 2019.^[71] This followed the previous record of −36 °F (−38 °C) recorded on January 5, 1999, near Congerville.^[71] Prior to the Mount Carroll record, a temperature of −37 °F (−38 °C) was recorded on January 15, 2009, at Rochelle, but at a weather station not subjected to the same quality control as official records.^[72]^[73]

Illinois averages approximately 51 days of

Tri-State Tornado of 1925 killed 695 people in three states; 613 of the victims died in Illinois.^[75]

Monthly Normal High and Low Temperatures For Various Illinois Cities (°F)
City	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Cairo^[76]	43/25	48/29	59/37	70/46	78/57	86/67	90/71	88/69	81/61	71/49	57/39	46/30
Chicago^[77]	31/16	36/21	47/31	59/42	70/52	81/61	85/65	83/65	75/57	64/45	48/34	36/22
Edwardsville^[78]	36/19	42/24	52/34	64/45	75/55	84/64	89/69	86/66	79/58	68/46	53/35	41/25
Moline^[79]	30/12	36/18	48/29	62/39	73/50	83/60	86/64	84/62	76/53	64/42	48/30	34/18
Peoria^[80]	31/14	37/20	49/30	62/40	73/51	82/60	86/65	84/63	77/54	64/42	49/31	36/20
Rockford^[81]	27/11	33/16	46/27	59/37	71/48	80/58	83/63	81/61	74/52	62/40	46/29	32/17
Springfield^[82]	33/17	39/22	51/32	63/42	74/53	83/62	86/66	84/64	78/55	67/44	51/34	38/23

Urban areas

Chicago is the largest city in the state and the

satellite towns of Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, and Elgin, as well as the cities of Rockford, the most populous city in the state outside of the Chicago area; Springfield, the state's capital; and Peoria

.

The most populated city in the state south of Springfield is

Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area (home to the University of Illinois), Springfield metropolitan area, the Illinois portion of the Quad Cities area, and the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area

.

Largest cities or towns in Illinois 2020 U.S. census^[83]
Rank	Name	County	Pop.	Rank	Name	County	Pop.
1	Chicago	Cook	2,746,388	11	Cicero	Cook	85,268
2	Aurora	Kane	180,542	12	Schaumburg	Cook	78,723
3	Joliet	Will	150,362	13	Bloomington	McLean	78,680
4	Naperville	DuPage	149,540	14	Evanston	Cook	78,110
5	Rockford	Winnebago	148,655	15	Arlington Heights	Cook	77,676
6	Elgin	Kane, Cook	114,797	16	Bolingbrook	Will, DuPage	73,922
7	Springfield	Sangamon	114,394	17	Decatur	Macon	70,522
8	Peoria	Peoria	113,150	18	Palatine	Cook	67,908
9	Waukegan	Lake	89,321	19	Skokie	Cook	67,824
10	Champaign	Champaign	88,302	20	Des Plaines	Cook	60,675

Demographics

The United States Census Bureau found that the population of Illinois was 12,812,508 in the 2020 United States census, moving from the fifth-largest state to the sixth-largest state (losing out to Pennsylvania). Illinois' population slightly declined in 2020 from the 2010 United States census by just over 18,000 residents and the overall population was quite higher than recent census estimates.^[84]

Illinois is the most populous state in the Midwest region. Chicago, the third-most populous city in the United States, is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area or Chicagoland, as this area is nicknamed. Although the Chicago metropolitan area comprises only 9% of the land area of the state, it contains 65% of the state's residents, with 21.4% of Illinois' population living in the city of Chicago itself as of 2020.^[85] The five most populous counties in the state, as of 2024, are Cook (5,182,617), DuPage (937,142), Lake (718,604), Will (708,583), and Kane (520,997), all located in the Chicago metropolitan area. While the state's population has declined in recent years, according to the 2020 census, these losses do not arise from the Chicago metro area; rather the declines are from the Downstate counties.^[86] As of the 2020 census, the state's geographic mean center of population is located at 41° 18′ 43″N 88° 22 23″W in Grundy County, about six miles northwest of Coal City.^[87]

Illinois is the most racially and ethnically diverse state in the Midwest. By several metrics, including racial and ethnic background, religious affiliation, and percentage of rural and urban divide, Illinois is the most representative of the larger

demography of the United States.^[88]

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1800	2,458		—
1810	12,282		399.7%
1820	55,211		349.5%
1830	157,445		185.2%
1840	476,183		202.4%
1850	851,470		78.8%
1860	1,711,951		101.1%
1870	2,539,891		48.4%
1880	3,077,871		21.2%
1890	3,826,352		24.3%
1900	4,821,550		26.0%
1910	5,638,591		16.9%
1920	6,485,280		15.0%
1930	7,630,654		17.7%
1940	7,897,241		3.5%
1950	8,712,176		10.3%
1960	10,081,158		15.7%
1970	11,113,976		10.2%
1980	11,426,518		2.8%
1990	11,430,602		0.0%
2000	12,419,293		8.6%
2010	12,830,632		3.3%
2020	12,812,508		−0.1%
2024 (est.)	12,710,158	^[89]	−0.8%
Source: 1910–2020^[90]

Race and ethnicity

2020 census

**Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition**
*Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.*
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)	Pop 2000^[91]	Pop 2010^[92]	Pop 2020^[93]	% 2000	% 2010	% 2020
White alone (NH)	8,424,140	8,167,753	7,472,751	67.83%	63.66%	58.32%
Black or African American alone (NH)	1,856,152	1,832,924	1,775,612	14.95%	14.29%	13.86%
Alaska Native alone (NH)	18,232	18,849	16,561	0.15%	0.15%	0.13%
Asian alone (NH)	419,916	580,586	747,280	3.38%	4.52%	5.83%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)	3,116	2,977	2,959	0.03%	0.02%	0.02%
Other race alone (NH)	13,479	16,008	45,080	0.11%	0.12%	0.35%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)	153,996	183,957	414,855	1.24%	1.43%	3.24%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	1,530,262	2,027,578	2,337,410	12.32%	15.80%	18.24%
Total	12,419,293	12,830,632	12,812,508	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%

Ethnic composition as of the 2020 census
Race and ethnicity^[94]	Alone		Total
White (non-Hispanic)	58.3%	58.3	61.3%	61.3
Hispanic or Latino^[c]	—		18.2%	18.2
African American (non-Hispanic)	13.9%	13.9	15.0%	15
Asian	5.8%	5.8	6.7%	6.7
Native American	0.1%	0.1	1.1%	1.1
Pacific Islander	0.02%	0.02	0.1%	0.1
Other	0.4%	0.4	1.1%	1.1

**Illinois Racial Breakdown of Population^[95]**
Racial composition	1940	1950^[95]	1960^[95]	1970^[95]^[96]	1980^[95]^[97]	1990^[45]^[98]	2000^[99]	2010^[100]	2020^[101]
White	95.0%	92.4%	89.4%	86.4%	80.8%	78.3%	73.5%	71.5%	61.4%
Black	4.9%	7.4%	10.3%	12.8%	14.7%	14.8%	15.1%	14.5%	14.1%
Asian	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	1.4%	2.5%	3.4%	4.6%	5.9%
Native American	0%	0%	0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
'Some Other race'	—	—	—	0.2%	3%	4.2%	5.8%	6.7%	8.9%
Two or more races	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9%	2.3%	8.9%
Hispanic or Latino (Any race)	0.3%^[d]	—	—	3.3%	5.6%	7.9%	12.3%	15.8%	18.2%
Non-Hispanic white	94.7%	—	—	83.5%	78%	74.8%	67.8%	63.7%	58.3%
Non-Hispanic black	—	—	—	12.6%	14.6%	14.7%	15.0%	14.3%	13.9%
Non-Hispanic Asian	—	—	—	0.4%	1.4%	2.4%	3.4%	4.5%	5.8%
Non-Hispanic Native American	—	—	—	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
Non-Hispanic 'Some other race'	—	—	—	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
Non-Hispanic two or more races	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2%	1.4%	3.2%

2023 American Community Survey

Racial Makeup of Illinois (2023)^[102]

White alone (60.7%)
Black alone (13.32%)
Native American alone (0.7%)
Asian Alone (6.03%)
Pacific Islander Alone (0.05%)
Some other race alone (8.13%)
Two or more races (11.08%)

Racial/Ethnic Makeup of Illinois excluding Hispanics from racial categories (2023)^[102]
NH=Non-Hispanic

White NH (57.85%)
Black NH (13.1%)
Native American NH (0.1%)
Asian NH (5.93%)
Pacific Islander NH (0.03%)
Other NH (0.38%)
Two or more races NH (3.65%)
Hispanic Any Race (18.95%)

Racial Makeup of Hispanics in Illinois (2023)^[102]

White alone (15.02%)
Black alone (1.19%)
Native American alone (3.15%)
Asian Alone (0.5%)
Pacific Islander Alone (0.08%)
Other race alone (40.87%)
Two or more races (39.19%)

According to 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimates (with Hispanics allocated amongst the various racial groups), Illinois' population was 60.7%

two or more races.^[102] The white population continues to remain the largest racial category in Illinois. Under this methodology, Hispanics are allocated amongst the various racial groups and primarily identify as Some Other Race (40.9%) or Multiracial (39.2%) with the remainder identifying as White (15.0%), Black (1.2%), American Indian and Alaskan Native (3.2%), Asian (0.5%), and Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (0.1%).^[102] By ethnicity, 19.0% of the total population is Hispanic-Latino (of any race) and 81.0% is Non-Hispanic (of any race). Illinois has the largest share of Hispanic residents in the Midwest, with over 37% of Hispanics in the region living in Illinois.^[103]^[104]

Hispanic Americans

If treated as a separate category, Hispanics are the largest minority group in Illinois, making up nearly a fifth of the population.[102] Around 75% of the state's Hispanic population is Mexican-American, numbering 1,794,369 and making up 14.3% of the total population of the state.^[105] Illinois is home to the largest population of Mexican descent in the US outside of the Western United States. The second largest Hispanic group in Illinois are Puerto Ricans, numbering 211,676 and making up 9% of the Hispanic population and 1.7% of the total population. The state is also home to significant Central American and South American communities, including 44,373 Guatemalan-Americans, 41,047 Ecuadorian-Americans, and 42,101 Colombian-Americans.^[106] Hispanics are the second fastest growing demographic in Illinois after Asians, growing by 15% between 2010 and 2020, while the overall population of the state declined.

The vast majority of Hispanics in Illinois live in Chicago or the surrounding suburbs, with 786,464 Hispanics living in the city of Chicago itself, making up nearly a third of the city's population. Many large suburbs of Chicago, including Aurora,^[107] Berwyn,^[108] Cicero,^[109] and Elgin,^[110] have either a majority or plurality Hispanic population. The county with the highest share of Hispanic residents in the state, at 33.5% of the population, is Kane County, located on the western edge of the Chicago suburbs and including the cities of Elgin and Aurora.^[111] Hispanics have the lowest per-capita income of any major ethnic or racial group in Illinois, at $28,541.^[112] However, the Hispanic poverty rate, at 14.1%, is lower than that of Black residents, who have a poverty rate of 23%.^[113] Hispanic residents are the youngest demographic group in Illinois, with a median age of 30.7.^[114]

While those of Hispanic ethnicity are not distinguished between total and partial Hispanic origin, 2021 estimates show that almost 10% of the state's Hispanic population also reported a non-Spanish European ancestry, with this group making up 1.7% of the state's total population.^[115]

African-Americans

Black Americans form the second largest minority group in Illinois. In 2023, 1,922,259 Illinoisans identified as Black alone or in combination, making up 15.3% of the states population. Of this population, 1,643,638 (13.1%) are non-Hispanic Black alone, while 28,321 identify as

Afro-Latino, and 250,300 identify as Black in combination with any other race.^[116]^[117]^[118] While most of the state's Black population identifies as African-American,^[119] there are also 45,393 people of West Indian descent and 43,911 of Nigerian descent in the state.^[120] A majority of the state's Black population resides in the Chicago metropolitan area, with 42% living in Chicago itself.^[121]

According to a study from the Brookings Institute, the Chicago area has the third highest level of black-white residential segregation in the United States.[122] While some areas, including many neighborhoods on the city's west side and south side, as well as many suburbs in the Chicago Southland, are majority Black, most neighborhoods on the north and northwest sides of Chicago, as well as most of the northern and southwestern suburbs of the city, have very small Black populations.^[123]

Outside of Chicagoland, urban areas in Southern and Central Illinois, including the Metro East, Peoria, Springfield, and Decatur also have significant Black populations. The counties with the highest share of Black residents in Illinois are Pulaski and Alexander County, located at the southern tip of the state along the banks of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the region known as "Little Egypt", with Black residents making up 32% of the population in both counties.^[124]

The per-capita income of Black residents, at $30,295, is the second lowest of all major ethnic or racial groups in the state, after Hispanics of any race. However, Black Illinoisans have the highest overall poverty rate of all groups in the state, at 23%.^[125] The median age of Black residents in Illinois is 36.8 years.^[126]

Illinois has a long history of milestones regarding African American involvement in politics. It was the first state to elect a Black person to the U.S. House of Representatives in the post-reconstruction era, with the election of Oscar De Priest in 1928.^[127] It was also the first state to elect a Black woman to the US Senate, with the election of Carol Mosley Brown in 1992.^[128] Illinois senator Barack Obama would become the first Black president of the United States following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

Asian-Americans

The third largest minority group in Illinois are Asian-Americans. In 2023, 894,048 Illinoisans identified as being Asian alone or in combination, making up 7.1% of the state's population.^[129] 756,661 identified as Asian alone, making up 6.0% of the population.^[130] The state's Asian-American population has grown rapidly in recent decades, from only 2.5% of the total population in 1990, to over 7% in 2023.

Around 37% of the state's Asian population is of South Asian origin, 31% are East Asian, 29% are Southeast Asian (Mostly Filipino), 1% are Central Asian, and 2% are of 'unspecified' Asian origins.^[131] The largest specific Asian groups in the state are Indian (277,961), Filipino (184,508), Chinese (160,880), Korean (67,452), and Pakistani (50,508).^[132] Around 85% of the state's Asian-American population identifies as Asian alone, while 15% identify as multiracial. Illinoisans of South Asian ancestry are significantly less likely than other Asian-Americans in the state to report multiracial ancestry, with 94% of Indian-Americans and 90% of Pakistani-Americans in the state identifying as Asian alone, compared to 82% of Chinese-American residents, 73% of Filipino-American residents, and only 44% of the state's 33,000 Japanese-American residents.^[133]^[134]

The overwhelming majority of the state's Asian population resides in the Chicago metropolitan area, mostly in suburban areas.^[135] Suburban DuPage County has the highest share of Asian residents in the state, at 14.7%.^[136] While Asians aren't the majority in any municipality within Illinois, they make up a significant share of the population (between 20 and 40%) in multiple western and northern suburbs of Chicago, including Naperville, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Skokie, Niles, and Morton Grove. Additionally, the Chicago community area of Armour Square, which includes the city's Chinatown neighborhood, is majority Asian at 63.7% of the population.^[137] Asian residents have the highest per-capita income of any major ethnic or racial group in the state, at $54,122, and the second lowest poverty rate, after non-Hispanic whites, at 10.4%.^[138]^[139] The median age of single-race Asian residents in Illinois is 38.9 years.^[140] Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth, of Thai descent, is one of only three Asian Americans currently serving in the US Senate.^[141]

Native Americans

In 2023, 271,494 Illinoisans identified as Native American alone or in combination, making up 2.2% of the state's population. 184,155 Illinoisans identified as Native American in combination with any other race, while 87,339 identified as being Native American alone. Over 80% of the state's Native American population also identified as being Hispanic or Latino, with only 12,385, or 0.1% of the population, identifying as non-Hispanic Native American alone.^[142]^[143] According to the 2023 American Community Survey, the largest self-identified Indigenous groups in the state were Aztec (53,815) and Maya (17,866).^[144] The largest non-Latin American Indigenous groups in the state were Blackfeet (8,674) and Navajo (3,950).

Pacific Islanders

The state has a very small number of Pacific Islanders, numbering 17,982 and making only 0.1% of the population in 2023.^[145] The majority of Pacific Islanders in the state identify as multiracial, with only 5,852 identifying as Pacific Islander alone.^[142] The largest Pacific Islander groups in the state are Native Hawaiians (6,362), Samoans (2,211), and Chamorros (1,519).^[146]

European-Americans

In 2023, 7,260,529 Illinoisans identified as non-Hispanic white alone, making up 57.9% of the population.^[147] Although a majority of white residents in the state live in the Chicago area, the counties with the highest percent share of white population are all located in rural areas with smaller populations, with non-Hispanic white people making up over 80 or 90% of the population in most non-urban counties in the state.^[148]

In the Chicago metro area, the white population is located mostly in suburban areas, with non-Hispanic white residents making up a majority of the population (between 53%

North Side of the city, while many predominantly African-American or Hispanic neighborhoods on the West Side and South Side of the city have almost no non-Hispanic white residents.^[152]

The largest European ancestry reported in Illinois is German. 1,983,050 Illinoisans, or 15.8% of the total population, identify with German ancestry, making it the single largest ancestry group in the state.^[153] German ancestry predominates among the white population in every county in northern Illinois, as well as most counties in the southwestern part of the state, while English-Americans, making up 6.8% of Illinois' population, predominate in most of the southeastern counties.^[154] The state's white population also includes a large number of Irish (10.5%), Polish (6.1%), and Italian-Americans (5.5%), with these groups concentrated mainly in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.^[155] Illinois' Polish-American population of 761,948 is the highest out of any state. The state is also home to a significant population of other Eastern European ethnicities, also largely concentrated around the Chicago area, including 86,814 Russians, 83,679 Czechs, 71,279 Ukrainians, and 35,407 Croatians.^[156]^[157]

Most Illinoisans who report any European ancestry identify with multiple ancestries. Those of partial descent make up the majority of most European ancestry groups in Illinois, including 58% of Polish-Americans, 68% of English-Americans, 69% of German-Americans, and 75% of Irish-Americans in the state. Of all European ancestries numbering over 50,000 in Illinois, those identifying solely with that ancestry are only a majority among the state's 71,279 Ukrainian-Americans, with two thirds of this group identifying as Ukrainian alone.^[158]^[159]

Along with white residents reporting multiple European ancestries, around 3% of the state's population identifies as non-Hispanic white in combination with another racial group.^[94] Additionally, while those of Hispanic ethnicity are not distinguished between total and partial Hispanic origin, an estimated 1.7% of Illinois' population are Hispanics who report a non-Spanish European ancestry.^[115]

Non-Hispanic whites have the second highest per-capita income of any racial group in the state, at $53,591, just slightly below that of Asians.^[112] The white poverty rate, at only 8.3%, is the lowest of all major racial or ethnic groups in the state, including Asians.^[139] The median age of non-Hispanic white residents is the oldest of all racial or ethnic groups in the state, at 44.2 years.^[160]

Arab Americans

The state is home to a significant Middle Eastern population, with 101,464 people (0.8% of the population) identifying as Arab.^[e]^[120] 71,422, (0.6% of the population) identify as Arab alone.^[161] The highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the state are found in the southern suburbs of Chicago, in the towns of Brigeview,^[162] Oak Lawn,^[163] Palos Hills,^[164] and Hickory Hills, where they make up between 5-12% of the population.^[165]

Illinois has the largest Palestinian population in the United States. According to census estimates, 19,255 Illinoisans have Palestinian ancestry, while other estimates place the population of Palestinian descent in the Chicago area as high as 85,000.^[166]

Demographic Trends

As of 2023^[update], 50% of Illinois's population younger than age 18 were minorities. This marks an increase from 2010, when 47% of children in the state were minorities, and 2000, when 41% were minorities.^[167] (Note: Children born to white Hispanics or to a sole full or partial minority parent are counted as minorities. Arabs are classified as white in census data.).^[168]

The state's most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, has declined from 83.5% in 1970^[169] to 58.5% in 2022.^[170] Almost 60% of Illinois' minority population, including over 67% of the black population, lives in Cook County, while the county includes around 40% of the state's total population.^[171] Cook County, which is home to Chicago, is the only majority-minority county within Illinois, with non-Hispanic whites making up a plurality of 40.4% of the population.^[172] Despite being the most ethnically diverse state in the Midwest, urban areas in Illinois have had a persistently high level of racial segregation, with a study from the Brookings Institute finding that the Chicago area has the third highest level of black-white residential segregation out of all major metropolitan areas in the United States.^[122]

Ancestry

According to 2022 estimates from the American Community Survey, 16% of the population had German ancestry, 14% had Mexican ancestry, 10.4% had Irish ancestry, 7.1% had English ancestry, 6.2% had Polish ancestry, 5.2% had Italian ancestry, 3.4% listed themselves as American, 2.3% had Indian ancestry, 1.7% had Puerto Rican ancestry, 1.7% had Swedish ancestry, 1.4% had Filipino ancestry, 1.4% had French ancestry, and 1.2% had Chinese ancestry. The state also has a large population of African-Americans, making up 15.3% of the population alone or in combination.^[173]^[174]^[175]^[176] This table displays all self-reported

ancestries

with over 50,000 members in Illinois, alone or in combination, according to estimates from the 2022 American Community Survey. Hispanic groups are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry:

Ancestry	Number in 2022 (Alone)^[177]^[178]	Number as of 2022 (Alone or in any combination)^[179]^[180]^[181]	% Total
German	649,997	2,014,297	16.0%
Black or African American (Including Afro-Caribbean & Sub-Saharan African)	1,689,724	1,931,027	15.3%
Mexican	—	1,759,842	14.0%
Irish	338,198	1,312,888	10.4%
English	278,564	891,189	7.1%
Polish	336,810	780,152	6.2%
Italian	205,189	657,830	5.2%
American (Mostly old-stock white Americans of British descent)	345,772	428,431	3.4%
Indian	270,311	287,101	2.3%
Puerto Rican	—	214,835	1.7%
Swedish	48,814	210,128	1.7%
Filipino	131,433	175,619	1.4%
French	27,025	174,964	1.4%
Chinese	130,864	153,277	1.2%
Broadly "European" (No country specified)	114,209	146,671	1.2%
Scottish	33,638	136,636	1.1%
Norwegian	33,099	133,538	1.1%
Dutch	32,184	122,139	1.0%
Arab	74,779	106,612	0.8%
Czech	21,168	83,090	0.7%
Greek	39,290	82,360	0.7%
Russian	27,532	79,623	0.6%
Lithuanian	27,001	73,207	0.6%
Korean	55,515	71,709	0.6%
Scotch-Irish	16,817	60,693	0.5%
Ukrainian	37,306	60,623	0.5%

Immigration

At the 2022 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 1,810,100 foreign-born inhabitants of the state or 14.4% of the population, with 37.8% from Mexico or Central America, 31% from Asia, 20.2% from Europe, 4.3% from South America, 4.2% from Africa, 1% from Canada, and 0.2% from Oceania.^[182]^[183] Of the foreign-born population, 53.5% were naturalized U.S. citizens, and 46.5% were not U.S. citizens.^[184] The top countries of origin for immigrants in Illinois were Mexico, India, Poland, the Philippines and China in 2018 and 2023.^[185]

Place of Birth	Population (2022)^[186]^[187]	% of Total
United States	10,660,218	84.7%
Illinois	8,379,091	66.6%
Other States or D.C.	2,227,917	17.7%
Puerto Rico	50,577	0.4%
Other US Territories	2,633	0.0%
Born abroad to American parents	111,714	0.9%
Mexico & Central America	683,766	5.4%
Mexico	621,541	4.9%
Guatemala	22,886	0.2%
Honduras	13,811	0.1%
El Salvador	12,097	0.1%
Belize	7,150	0.1%
Other Central American countries	6,281	0.0%
Caribbean (Not including Puerto Rico)	25,258	0.2%
Cuba	6,955	0.1%
Jamaica	6,873	0.1%
Haiti	5,265	0.0%
Other Caribbean countries	6,165	0.0%
South America	76,944	0.7%
Colombia	22,796	0.2%
Venezuela	15,387	0.1%
Ecuador	14,356	0.1%
Brazil	9,164	0.1%
Peru	6,426	0.1%
Other South American countries	8,815	0.1%
Northern America	17,775	0.1%
Canada	17,632	0.1%
Other Northern American countries	143	0.0%
Eastern Europe	271,358	2.2%
Poland	120,473	1.0%
Ukraine	33,575	0.3%
Romania	15,452	0.1%
Russia	14,930	0.1%
Bulgaria	13,464	0.1%
Bosnia	11,071	0.1%
Other Eastern European countries	62,393	0.5%
Western Europe	30,076	0.3%
Germany	19,611	0.2%
Other Western European countries	10,465	0.1%
Southern Europe	34,997	0.3%
Italy	18,660	0.1%
Greece	12,463	0.1%
Other Southern European countries	3,874	0.0%
Northern Europe	27,573	0.2%
UK (Including overseas Crown Dependencies)	19,123	0.2%
Ireland	5,465	0.0%
Other Northern European countries	2,985	0.0%
Europe, unspecified country	1,353	0.0%
East Asia	137,098	1.1%
China	77,933	0.7%
Korea (North or South)	37,662	0.3%
Japan	9,905	0.1%
Taiwan	8,995	0.1%
Other East Asian countries	2,603	0.0%
South or Central Asia	231,775	1.8%
India	173,578	1.4%
Pakistan	29,823	0.2%
Bangladesh	5,858	0.0%
Other South or Central Asian countries	22,516	0.2%
Southeast Asia	131,684	1.0%
Philippines	92,569	0.7%
Vietnam	18,559	0.1%
Thailand	5,268	0.0%
Other Southeast Asian countries	15,288	0.1%
West Asia	52,352	0.4%
Iraq	13,341	0.1%
Jordan	8,240	0.1%
Syria	8,130	0.1%
Turkey	5,271	0.0%
Other West Asian countries	17,370	0.1%
Asia, unspecified country	8,366	0.1%
Sub-Saharan Africa	63,590	0.6%
Nigeria	22,648	0.2%
Ghana	6,018	0.0%
Ethiopia	5,069	0.0%
Other Sub-Saharan African countries	29,855	0.3%
North Africa	11,924	0.1%
Africa, unspecified country	2,368	0.0%
Oceania	4,211	0.0%
Total Population	12,582,032	100%

Age and sex

In 2022, 11.2% of Illinois's population was reported as being under the age of 9, 12.9% were between 10 and 19 years old, 13.4% were 20–29 years old, 13.6% were 30–39 years old, 12.6% were 40–49 years old, 12.7% were 50–59 years old, 11.9% were 60–69 years old, 7.7% were 70–79 years old, and 4% were over the age of 80.^[188] As of 2023, 21.5% of the population is under the age of 18.^[189] The median age in Illinois is 39.1 years.

Females make up approximately 50.5% of the population, while males make up 49.5%.

LGBTQ.^[192]

Age Group	% of Total (2022)	Population (2022)
0–9	11.2%	1,409,553
10–19	12.9%	1,628,658
20–29	13.4%	1,683,823
30–39	13.6%	1,709,929
40–49	12.6%	1,579,665
50–59	12.7%	1,596,049
60–69	11.9%	1,501,221
70–79	7.7%	970,961
80+	4%	502,173

Socioeconomics

As of 2023, the per-capita income in Illinois is $45,043,^[193] and the median income for a household in the state is $80,306, slightly higher than the national average. 11.6% of the population lives below the poverty line, including 15% of children under 18 and 11% of those over the age of 65. There is significant racial income inequality in the state, with Asians and Non-Hispanic Whites having a per-capita income almost double that of Black and Hispanic residents.

Race/Ethnicity	Per capita income (2023)	Poverty Rate (2023)
Asian^[138]	$54,122	10.4%
White (Non-Hispanic)^[112]^[139]	$53,591	8.3%
All residents	$45,043	11.6%
Black^[194]^[125]	$30,295	23.0%
Hispanic (Any Race)^[112]^[113]	$28,541	14.1%

There are 5,071,288 households in Illinois, with an average size of 2.4 people per household. 48% of the population over the age of 15 is married. As of 2023, Illinois' total fertility rate is the 11th lowest of all US states, with a lifetime average of 1.50 births per woman, in comparison to an average of 1.64 on the national level.^[195]

90.6% of the adult population has a high school diploma, and 38.3% of the population over 25 has a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to a national average of 36.2%.^[188]

In 2022, Illinois scored 0.932 on the UN's Human Development Index, placing it in the category of "very high" Human Development and slightly higher than the US average of 0.927.^[196]

According to

homeless people in Illinois.^[197]^[198]

According to 2022 data from the Prison Policy Initiative, an estimated 53,000 people were imprisoned in local jails, state prisons, federal prisons, or detention centers in the state, meaning that around 0.43% of the state's total population was incarcerated.^[199] Census data from 2023 reports an estimated 59,254 people (0.47%) imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in the state.^[200] However, Illinois' prison incarceration rate has declined by almost 50% since 2014, and the state has the 13th lowest total incarceration rate out of all 50 states.^[201]

Birth data by race/ethnicity

Live Births by Single Race/Ethnicity of Mother
Race	2013^[202]	2014^[203]	2015^[204]	2016^[205]	2017^[206]	2018^[207]	2019^[208]	2020^[209]	2021^[210]	2022^[211]	2023^[212]
White	85,866 (54.7%)	86,227 (54.4%)	85,424 (54.0%)	82,318 (53.3%)	78,925 (52.8%)	77,244 (53.3%)	74,434 (53.1%)	70,550 (52.9%)	71,482 (54.1%)	68,107 (53.1%)	64,698 (51.8%)
Black	27,692 (17.6%)	28,160 (17.8%)	28,059 (17.7%)	25,619 (16.6%)	25,685 (17.2%)	24,482 (16.9%)	23,258 (16.6%)	22,293 (16.7%)	20,779 (15.7%)	19,296 (15.0%)	18,013 (14.4%)
Asian	9,848 (6.3%)	10,174 (6.4%)	10,222 (6.5%)	10,015 (6.5%)	9,650 (6.5%)	9,452 (6.5%)	9,169 (6.5%)	8,505 (6.4%)	8,338 (6.3%)	8,277 (6.4%)	8,416 (6.7%)
American Indian	234 (0.1%)	227 (0.1%)	205 (0.1%)	110 (0.0%)	133 (0.1%)	129 (0.1%)	119 (0.1%)	79 (>0.1%)	86 (>0.1%)	87 (>0.1%)	97 (>0.1%)
Hispanic (any race)	33,454 (21.3%)	33,803 (21.3%)	33,902 (21.4%)	32,635 (21.1%)	31,428 (21.0%)	30,362 (21.0%)	30,097 (21.5%)	28,808 (21.6%)	28,546 (21.6%)	29,710 (23.1%)	30,465 (24.4%)
Total	156,931 (100%)	158,556 (100%)	158,116 (100%)	154,445 (100%)	149,390 (100%)	144,815 (100%)	140,128 (100%)	133,298 (100%)	132,189 (100%)	128,350 (100%)	124,820 (100%)

Since 2013, births of Hispanic origin are not collected by race, but included in one Hispanic group; persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Languages

The official language of Illinois is English,^[213] although between 1923 and 1969, state law gave official status to "the American language". Nearly 80% of people in Illinois speak English natively, and most of the rest speak it fluently as a second language.^[214] A number of dialects of American English are spoken, ranging from Inland Northern American English and African-American English around Chicago, to Midland American English in Central Illinois, to Southern American English in the far south.

Over 24% of Illinoians speak a language other than English at home, of which

Illinois Country French has mostly gone extinct in Illinois, although it is still celebrated in the French Colonial Historic District

.

Language spoken at home	% of Total (2023)^[216]	Population (2023)
English only	75.7%	9,004,820
Spanish	14.1%	1,672,496
Polish	1.4%	161,590
Chinese	0.9%	109,270
Tagalog	0.7%	87,330
Arabic	0.6%	74,919
Urdu	0.5%	62,667
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages	0.5%	61,713
Gujarati	0.5%	53,564
Russian	0.4%	48,012
Hindi	0.4%	45,893
Korean	0.3%	36,666
French	0.3%	34,463
West African Languages	0.3%	32,917
German	0.3%	31,305
Serbo-Croatian	0.2%	26,399
Italian	0.2%	26,018
Greek	0.2%	23,751
Telugu	0.2%	23,163
Other Dravidian Languages	0.2%	20,193
Vietnamese	0.2%	19,468
All other languages	2.0%	232,046
Total population aged 5+	100%	11,888,663

Religion

Religion in Illinois (2023)[217]

Protestantism (36%)
No religion
(29%)
Roman Catholicism
(23%)
Islam (3%)
Other Christian (3%)
Judaism (2%)
Buddhism (1%)
Hinduism (1%)
Other religion (2%)
No response given/Unknown (0%)

Christianity

The religious demographics of Illinois closely mirror the religious demography of the nation as a whole. Christians of any denomination make up 62% of the population of Illinois, a share identical to the estimated national percentage of 62%, according to the Pew Research Center.^[218]

However, looking at specific denominations, Illinois has a significantly larger Catholic population than most states. Roman Catholics constitute the single largest religious denomination in Illinois; they are heavily concentrated in and around Chicago, reflecting the prominent Hispanic, Polish, Irish, and Italian diasporas in the area.^[219] As of 2023, Catholics account for nearly 25% of the state's population. In 2010, Catholics in Illinois numbered 3,648,907, while by 2020, this number had declined to 3,099,544.^[219] The first and only American-born Catholic pope, Pope Leo XIV, was born in Chicago and raised in the suburb of Dolton.

When taken together as a group, the various Protestant denominations comprise a greater percentage of the state's population than do Catholics, making up 36% of the state's population. The largest Protestant denominations in 2020 were the

Missouri Synod Lutherans

in the United States, at 182,097.

Illinois played an important role in the early Latter Day Saint movement, with Nauvoo becoming a gathering place for Mormons in the early 1840s. Following the 1844 killing of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by a lynch mob in nearby Carthage, Nauvoo was the location of the succession crisis, which led to the separation of the Mormon movement into several Latter Day Saint sects. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest of the sects to emerge from the Mormon schism, has more than 55,000 adherents in Illinois today.^[220]

Other Abrahamic religious communities

A significant number of adherents of other

Muslim, Baháʼí, and Jewish religions all call the state home.^[221] Muslims constituted the largest non-Christian group, with 473,792 adherents. Illinois has the largest concentration of Muslims by state in the country, with 3.7% of the population being Muslim.^[222] The highest concentration of Muslims in the state is in suburban DuPage county, where they make up approximately 7.6% of the population.^[223] In the Chicago area as a whole, around 4.7% of the population are Muslim, the highest rate of any major metropolitan area in the United States.^[224]

The largest and oldest surviving Baháʼí House of Worship in the world is located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Illinois, one of eight continental Baháʼí House of Worship.^[225] It serves as a space for people of all backgrounds and religions to gather, meditate, reflect, and pray, expressing the Baháʼí principle of the oneness of religions.^[226]

The Chicago area has a very large Jewish community, particularly in the northern suburbs of Skokie, Buffalo Grove, Highland Park, and surrounding areas. Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was the Windy City's first Jewish mayor. The current governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, is Jewish, being the third person of Jewish descent to hold the office after Henry Horner and Samuel H. Shapiro.^[227] Almost 4% of the Chicago area's population is Jewish, numbering over 300,000 people.^[228]

Other religions

Chicago is also home to a significant population of

Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists.^[221]

Economy

As of 2022, the

gross state product for Illinois reached US$1.0 trillion.^[229]

As of February 2019, the unemployment rate in Illinois reached 4.2%.[230]

Illinois's minimum wage will rise to $15 per hour by 2025, making it one of the highest in the nation.^[231]

Agriculture

Illinois's major agricultural outputs are

American viticultural areas. In the area of The Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Byway, peaches and apples are grown. The German immigrants from agricultural backgrounds who settled in Illinois in the mid- to late 19th century are in part responsible for the profusion of fruit orchards in that area of Illinois.^[237]

Illinois's universities are actively researching alternative agricultural products as alternative crops.

Manufacturing

Illinois is one of the nation's manufacturing leaders, boasting annual value added productivity by manufacturing of over $107 billion in 2006. As of 2011 [update], Illinois is ranked as the 4th-most productive manufacturing state in the country, behind California, Texas, and Ohio.^[238] About three-quarters of the state's manufacturers are located in the Northeastern Opportunity Return Region, with 38 percent of Illinois's approximately 18,900 manufacturing plants located in Cook County. As of 2006, the leading manufacturing industries in Illinois, based upon value-added, were chemical manufacturing ($18.3 billion), machinery manufacturing ($13.4 billion), food manufacturing ($12.9 billion), fabricated metal products ($11.5 billion), transportation equipment ($7.4 billion), plastics and rubber products ($7.0 billion), and computer and electronic products ($6.1 billion).^[239]

Services

By the early 2000s, Illinois's economy had moved toward a dependence on high-value-added services, such as financial trading, higher education, law, logistics, and medicine. In some cases, these services clustered around institutions that hearkened back to Illinois's earlier economies. For example, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a trading exchange for global derivatives, had begun its life as an agricultural futures market. Other important non-manufacturing industries include publishing, tourism, and energy production and distribution.

Investments

Venture capitalists funded a total of approximately $62 billion in the U.S. economy in 2016. Of this amount, Illinois-based companies received approximately $1.1 billion. Similarly, in FY 2016, the federal government spent $461 billion on contracts in the U.S. Of this amount, Illinois-based companies received approximately $8.7 billion.^{[citation needed]}

Energy

Illinois is a net importer of fuels for energy, despite large coal resources and some minor oil production. Illinois exports electricity, ranking fifth among states in electricity production and seventh in electricity consumption.^[240]

Coal

The coal industry of Illinois has its origins in the middle 19th century, when entrepreneurs such as

Jacob Bunn contributed to the development of the Illinois coal industry and was a founder and owner of the Western Coal & Mining Company of Illinois. About 68% of Illinois has coal-bearing strata of the Pennsylvanian geologic period. According to the Illinois State Geological Survey, 211 billion tons of bituminous coal are estimated to lie under the surface, having a total heating value greater than the estimated oil deposits in the Arabian Peninsula.^[241] However, this coal has a high sulfur content, which causes acid rain, unless special equipment is used to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.^[25]^[28]^[67] Many Illinois power plants are not equipped to burn high-sulfur coal. In 1999, Illinois produced 40.4 million tons of coal, but only 17 million tons (42%) of Illinois coal was consumed in Illinois. Most of the coal produced in Illinois is exported to other states and countries. In 2008, Illinois exported three million tons of coal and was projected to export nine million in 2011, as demand for energy grows in places such as China, India, and elsewhere in Asia and Europe.^[242] As of 2010, Illinois was ranked third in recoverable coal reserves at producing mines in the nation.^[234] Most of the coal produced in Illinois is exported to other states, while much of the coal burned for power in Illinois (21 million tons in 1998) is mined in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.^[240]

Mattoon was chosen as the site for the Department of Energy's FutureGen project, a 275-megawatt experimental zero emission coal-burning power plant that the DOE just gave a second round of funding. In 2010, after a number of setbacks, the city of Mattoon backed out of the project.^[243]

Petroleum

Illinois is a leading refiner of petroleum in the American

oil production among states, with a daily output of approximately 28,000 bbl (4,500 m³) in 2005.^[244]^[245]

Nuclear power

Dresden-1 and Zion-1 and 2. Illinois ranked first in the nation in 2010 in both nuclear capacity and nuclear generation. Generation from its nuclear power plants accounted for 12 percent of the nation's total.^[234] In 2007, 48% of Illinois's electricity was generated using nuclear power.^[247] The Morris Operation is the only de facto high-level radioactive waste

storage site in the United States.

Wind power

Illinois has seen growing interest in the use of

EcoGrove, and Mendota Hills.^[250]

As of 2007, wind energy represented only 1.7% of Illinois's energy production, and it was estimated that wind power could provide 5–10% of the state's energy needs.[251]^[252] Also, the Illinois General Assembly mandated in 2007 that by 2025, 25% of all electricity generated in Illinois is to come from renewable resources.^[253]

Biofuels

Illinois is ranked second in corn production among U.S. states, and Illinois corn is used to produce 40% of the ethanol consumed in the United States.^[233] The Archer Daniels Midland corporation in Decatur, Illinois, is the world's leading producer of ethanol from corn.

The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC), the world's only facility dedicated to researching the ways and means of converting corn (maize) to ethanol is located on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.^[254]^[255]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of the partners in the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a $500 million biofuels research project funded by petroleum giant BP.^[256]^[257]

Taxes

Tax is collected by the

flat rate. In 1990, that rate was set at 3%, but in 2010, the General Assembly voted for a temporary increase in the rate to 5%; the new rate went into effect on January 1, 2011; the personal income rate partially sunset on January 1, 2015, to 3.75%, while the corporate income tax fell to 5.25%.^[258]^[259] Illinois failed to pass a budget from 2015 to 2017, after the 736-day budget impasse, a budget was passed in Illinois after lawmakers overturned Governor Bruce Rauner's veto; this budget raised the personal income rate to 4.95% and the corporate rate to 7%.^[260] There are two rates for state sales tax: 6.25% for general merchandise and 1% for qualifying food, drugs, and medical appliances.^[261] The property tax is a major source of tax revenue for local government taxing districts. The property tax is a local—not state—tax imposed by local government taxing districts, which include counties, townships, municipalities, school districts, and special taxation districts. The property tax in Illinois is imposed only on real property.^[25]^[28]^[67]

On May 1, 2019, the Illinois Senate voted to approve a

J. B. Pritzker, approved the bill on May 27, 2019. It was scheduled for a 2020 general election ballot vote^[262]^[263] and required 60 percent voter approval to effectively amend the state constitution.^[264] The amendment was not approved by Illinoisans, with 55.1% of voters voting "No" on approval and 44.9% voting "Yes".^[265]

As of 2017 Chicago had the highest state and local sales tax rate for a U.S. city with a populations above 200,000, at 10.250%.[266] The state of Illinois has the second highest rate of real estate tax: 2.31%, which is second only to New Jersey at 2.44%.^[267]

Chicago Skyway charging 51.2 cents per mile.^[268] Illinois also has the 11th highest gasoline tax by state, at 37.5 cents per gallon.^[269]

Culture

Museums

Illinois has numerous museums; the greatest concentration of these are in Chicago. Several museums in Chicago are ranked as some of the best in the world. These include the John G. Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Adler Planetarium, and the Museum of Science and Industry.

The modern Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is the largest and most attended presidential library in the country. The Illinois State Museum boasts a collection of 13.5 million objects that tell the story of Illinois life, land, people, and art. The ISM is among only 5% of the nation's museums that are accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Other historical museums in the state include the Polish Museum of America in Chicago; Magnolia Manor in Cairo; Easley Pioneer Museum in Ipava; the Elihu Benjamin Washburne; Ulysses S. Grant Homes, both in Galena; and the Chanute Air Museum, located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul.

The Chicago metropolitan area also hosts two zoos: The

Loop. The zoo, including Nature Boardwalk

, occupies 49 acres (20 ha) of the park.

Illinois Museums

Vandalia State House State Historic Site in Vandalia
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
Victorian period historic house museum in Cairo
.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield
The Polish Museum of America in Chicago
A
Railway Post Office preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union

Music

Illinois is a leader in music education, having hosted the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference since 1946, as well being home to the Illinois Music Educators Association (ILMEA, formerly IMEA), one of the largest professional music educator's organizations in the country. Each summer since 2004, Southern Illinois University Carbondale has played host to the Southern Illinois Music Festival, which presents dozens of performances throughout the region. Past featured artists include the Eroica Trio and violinist David Kim.

Chicago, in the northeast corner of the state, is a major center for music^[270] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed.

The

blues music to the city, resulting in Chicago blues and "Chicago-style" Dixieland jazz. Notable blues artists included Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Howlin' Wolf and both Sonny Boy Williamsons; jazz greats included Nat King Cole, Gene Ammons, Benny Goodman, and Bud Freeman. Chicago is also well known for its soul music

.

In the early 1930s, Gospel music began to gain popularity in Chicago due to Thomas A. Dorsey's contributions at Pilgrim Baptist Church.

In the 1980s and 1990s,

hip hop also became popular in Chicago. Orchestras in Chicago include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Chicago Sinfonietta.^[271]

Movies

Chicago, and its suburbs. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, and all his films take place in the fictional Shermer, Illinois (the original name of Northbrook was Shermerville, and Hughes's High School, Glenbrook North High School, is on Shermer Road). Most locations in his films include Glenbrook North, the former Maine North High School, the Ben Rose House in Highland Park, and the famous Home Alone house in Winnetka, Illinois

.

Recreation

The Illinois state parks system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, becoming the first park in a system encompassing more than 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas.

Areas under the protection of the

New Philadelphia Town Site. The federal government also manages the Shawnee National Forest and the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

.

Sports

As one of the United States' major metropolises, all major sports leagues have teams headquartered in Chicago.

Two

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cups in that timespan. The team played in Bridgeview

, adjacent to Chicago from 2006 to 2019. The team now plays at Soldier Field in Chicago.

The

Chicago Red Stars have played at the top level of U.S. women's soccer since their formation in 2009, except in the 2011 season. The team currently plays in the National Women's Soccer League, playing at SeatGeek Stadium, the Bridgeview venue it formerly shared with Fire FC. The Chicago Sky have played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) since 2006. The Sky won their first WNBA Championship in 2021. They play at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The Chicago Bandits of the NPF, a women's softball league, have won four league titles, most recently in 2016. They play at Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont, Illinois

, in the Chicago area.

Many

SPHL, Rockford Aviators of the Frontier League, Rockford IceHogs of the AHL, Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League, Southern Illinois Miners in the Frontier League, Windy City Bulls of the NBA G League, and Windy City ThunderBolts

of the Frontier League.

The state features 13 athletic programs that compete in

Football Championship Subdivision. The Illinois State Redbirds and Southern Illinois Salukis are members of the Missouri Valley Conference for non-football sports and the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Eastern Illinois Panthers and Western Illinois Leathernecks are members of the Ohio Valley Conference. The city of Chicago is home to four Division I programs that do not sponsor football: the DePaul Blue Demons of the Big East Conference, Loyola Ramblers of the Atlantic 10 Conference, UIC Flames of the Missouri Valley Conference, and Chicago State Cougars of the Northeast Conference. Finally, two non-football Division I programs are located downstate. The Bradley Braves are Missouri Valley Conference members, and the SIU Edwardsville Cougars

compete in the Ohio Valley Conference.

NHRA

drag races.

Illinois features several golf courses, such as

LPGA Tour

event from 1976 to 2011.

Law and politics

In a 2020 study, Illinois was ranked as the 4th easiest state for citizens to vote in.^[276]

State government

The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield

The government of Illinois, under the Constitution of Illinois, has three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. The executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the governor as chief executive. Legislative functions are granted to the Illinois General Assembly. The judiciary is composed of the Supreme Court and lower courts.

The executive branch is composed of six elected officers and their offices as well as numerous other departments.^[277] The six elected officers are:^[277] Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer. The government of Illinois has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services.^[277]^[278]

The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature, composed of the 118-member Illinois House of Representatives and the 59-member Illinois Senate. The members of the General Assembly are elected at the beginning of each even-numbered year. The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature.^[279]^[280]

The

Circuit Courts

. The Supreme Court oversees the administration of the court system.

The administrative divisions of Illinois are counties, townships, precincts, cities, towns, villages, and special-purpose districts.^[281] The basic subdivision of Illinois are the 102 counties.^[282] Eighty-five of the 102 counties are in turn divided into townships and precincts.^[282]^[283] Municipal governments are the cities, villages, and incorporated towns.^[282] Some localities possess home rule, which allows them to govern themselves to a certain extent.^[284]

Party balance

J. B. Pritzker

(D)

In modern national and state politics, Illinois is a Democratic stronghold.^[285] Historically, Illinois was a political swing state, with near-parity existing between the Republican and the Democratic parties. However, in recent elections, the Democratic Party has gained ground, and Illinois has come to be seen as a solid "blue" state in both presidential and congressional campaigns.^[286]^[287] Illinois's Democratic tendencies are mostly attributable to Cook County and Chicago, by far the state's largest county and city, respectively, which have long been strongly Democratic. The collar counties, affluent suburban counties that surround Cook County, were ancestrally Republican and helped keep the state competitive; however, they have swung toward the left in recent elections as the national Republican Party has become increasingly conservative, which has cemented Democratic dominance in state politics.^[288] Outside of the Chicago metropolitan area, the state's rural areas are heavily Republican. The dominance of the Chicago area in state elections is so overwhelming that it has influenced a secessionist movement in the downstate region.^[289]

Illinois was long seen as a national bellwether,

blue wall" of states that have consistently voted Democratic in the last six presidential elections. In 2000, George W. Bush became the first Republican to win the presidency without carrying either Illinois or Vermont, with Donald Trump repeating the feat in 2016. Illinois has not elected a Republican to the Senate since Mark Kirk won in 2010; the last Republicans to hold statewide office were Governor Bruce Rauner and Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti

, who both left office in 2019.

History of corruption

Politics in the state have been infamous for highly visible corruption cases, as well as for crusading reformers, such as governors

Otto Kerner, Jr. was imprisoned for bribery; Secretary of State Paul Powell was investigated and found to have gained great wealth through bribes, and State Auditor of Public Accounts (Comptroller) Orville Hodge was imprisoned for embezzlement. In 1912, William Lorimer, the GOP boss of Chicago, was expelled from the U.S. Senate for bribery, and in 1921, Governor Len Small was found to have defrauded the state of a million dollars.^[28]^[67]^[291]

U.S. presidential elections

Illinois has shown a strong presence in presidential elections. Three presidents have claimed Illinois as their political base when running for president: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and most recently Barack Obama. Lincoln was born in Kentucky, but he moved to Illinois at age 21. He served in the General Assembly and represented the 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election to the presidency in 1860. Ulysses S. Grant was born in Ohio and had a military career that precluded settling down, but on the eve of the Civil War and approaching middle age, he moved to Illinois and thus utilized the state as his home and political base when running for president. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and made Illinois his home after graduating from law school, and later represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate. He then became president in 2008, running as a candidate from his Illinois base.

Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois, in the city of Tampico, raised in Dixon, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College, outside Peoria. Reagan later moved to California during his young adulthood. He then became an actor, and later became California's Governor before being elected president.

Hillary Clinton was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and became the first woman to represent a major political party in the general election of the U.S. presidency. Clinton ran from a platform based in New York State.

African-American U.S. senators

Twelve African-Americans have served as members of the United States Senate. Of which three have represented Illinois, the most of any single state: Carol Moseley-Braun,^[292] Barack Obama,^[293] and Roland Burris

, who was appointed to replace Obama after his election to the presidency. Moseley-Braun was the first African-American woman to become a U.S. Senator.

Political families

Several families from Illinois have played particularly prominent roles in politics, in both the Republican Party earlier in the state's history but more recently the Democratic Party, gaining both statewide and national fame.

Ingersoll

The Ingersoll family of Illinois comprised a pair of brothers who held several prominent elected positions representing Illinois.

Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Illinois State Representative 1856, U.S. Representative from Illinois 1864–71. Brother of Robert G. Ingersoll.^[294]
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), Illinois State Representative 1860, Attorney General of Illinois 1867–69, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1876. Brother of Ebon C. Ingersoll.^[294]
- John C. Ingersoll (1860–1903), U.S. Consul in Cartagena, Colombia 1902. Son of Ebon C. Ingersoll.^[294]

Stevenson

The Stevenson family, initially rooted in central Illinois and later based in the Chicago metropolitan area, has provided four generations of Illinois officeholders.

Congressman
Lewis Stevenson (1868–1929), son of Adlai, served as Illinois Secretary of State.
Dwight Eisenhower
.
United States Senator
.

Daley

The Daley family's powerbase was in Chicago.

Richard J. Daley (1902–1976) served as Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to his death.
Richard M. Daley (born 1942), son of Richard J, was Chicago's longest-serving mayor, in office from 1989 to 2011.
William M. Daley (born 1948), another son of Richard J, is a former White House Chief of Staff and has served in a variety of appointed positions.

Pritzker

The Pritzker family is based in Chicago and have played important roles in both the private and the public sectors.

Hyatt Hotel
based in Chicago.
Penny Pritzker (born 1959), 38th United States Secretary of Commerce under President Barack Obama.
J. B. Pritzker (born 1965), current and 43rd governor of Illinois
and co-founder of the Pritzker Group.

Madigan

Members of the Madigan family have held extensive influence in Illinois politics.

Michael Madigan (born 1942), longtime speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and notorious political boss.
Lisa Madigan (born 1966), adopted daughter of Michael Madigan, former Illinois Attorney General.

Education

Campus of the University of Chicago

Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Illinois State Board of education

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is autonomous of the governor and the state legislature, and administers

public education in the state. Local municipalities and their respective school districts operate individual public schools, but the ISBE audits performance of public schools with the Illinois School Report Card

. The ISBE also makes recommendations to state leaders concerning education spending and policies.

Primary and secondary schools

Education is compulsory for ages 7–17 in Illinois. Schools are commonly, but not exclusively, divided into three tiers of primary and secondary education: elementary school, middle school or junior high school, and high school. District territories are often complex in structure. Many areas in the state are actually located in two school districts—one for high school and the other for elementary and middle schools. And such districts do not necessarily share boundaries. A given high school may have several elementary districts that feed into it, yet some of those feeder districts may themselves feed into multiple high school districts.

Colleges and universities

Using the criterion established by

the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

, there are eleven "National Universities" in the state.

As of 19 August 2010^[update], six of these rank in the "first tier" among the top 500 National Universities in the nation, as determined by the

Booth School of Business, along with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management

consistently rank within the top five graduate business schools in the country and top ten globally. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is often ranked among the best engineering schools in the world and United States.
Illinois also has more than twenty additional accredited four-year universities, both public and private, and dozens of small liberal arts colleges across the state. Additionally, Illinois supports 49 public community colleges in the Illinois Community College System.

School financing

Schools in Illinois are funded primarily by property taxes, based on state assessment of property values, rather than direct state contributions. Scholar Tracy Steffes has described Illinois public education as historically "inequitable", a system where one of "the wealthiest of states" is "the stingiest in its support for education". There have been several attempts to reform school funding in Illinois. The most notable attempt came in 1973 with the adoption of the Illinois Resource Equalizer Formula, a measure through which it was hoped funding could be collected and distributed to Illinois schools more equitably. However, opposition from affluent Illinois communities who objected to having to pay for the less well-off school districts (many of them Black majority communities, produced by redlining, white flight, and other "soft" segregation methods) resulted in the formula's abolition in the late 1980s.^[296]

Transportation

See also:
List of Illinois Routes

Because of its central location and its proximity to the
Grain Belt
, Illinois is a national crossroads for air, auto, rail, and truck traffic.

Airports

See also: List of airports in Illinois

Concourse B inside O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports

From 1962 until 1998, Chicago's
Midway Airport (MDW), which had been the busiest airport in the world at one point until it was supplanted by O'Hare as the busiest airport in 1962, is now the secondary airport in the Chicago metropolitan area and still ranks as one of the nation's busiest airports. Midway is a major hub for Southwest Airlines and services many other carriers as well. Midway served 17.3 million domestic and international passengers in 2008.^[298]

Highways

Main articles: List of Interstate Highways in Illinois and List of U.S. Highways in Illinois

An Illinois welcome sign along U.S. Route 67 in Rock Island

The Interstate Highways in Illinois are all segments of the
I-72, I-74, I-80, I-88, I-90, and I-94
.
Illinois has the distinction of having the most primary (two-digit) interstates pass through it among all the 50 states with 13. Illinois also ranks third among the fifty states with the most interstate mileage, coming in after California and Texas, which are much bigger states in area.[300]

Standard license plate introduced in 2017

The
US 62, and US 67
.

Buses

Due to its central location, Illinois sees numerous intercity bus services primarily connecting east and west. The
Flixbus, Greyhound Lines, Indian Trails, Miller Transportation (Hoosier Ride), Peoria Charter Coach Company, Van Galder Bus Company, and Wisconsin Coach Lines
.

Local transit map

SHOW Bus
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Local Transit Systems (Only systems with fixed-route services are shown)

Railroads

See also: List of Illinois railroads

Illinois major rail network

Illinois has an extensive passenger and freight rail transportation network. Chicago is a national
Saluki, the Chicago to Quincy Carl Sandburg and Illinois Zephyr, and the Chicago to St. Louis Lincoln Service. Currently there is trackwork on the Chicago–St. Louis line to bring the maximum speed up to 110 mph (180 km/h), which would reduce the trip time by an hour and a half. Nearly every North American railway meets at Chicago (including all six Class I railroads), making it the largest and most active rail hub in the country. Extensive heavy rail service is provided in the city proper and some immediate suburbs by the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system. One of the largest suburban commuter rail system in the United States, operated by Metra
, uses existing rail lines to provide direct commuter rail access for hundreds of suburbs to the city and beyond.

Waterways

See also: Category:Illinois waterways

In addition to the state's rail lines, the
Saint Lawrence Seaway
.

See also

Illinois portal
United States portal

Index of Illinois-related articles

List of people from Illinois

Outline of Illinois

USS Illinois, 4 ships

Notes

^ ^a ^b Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988

^ Illinois borders the state of Wisconsin to its north, Iowa to its northwest, Missouri to its southwest, Kentucky to its south, Indiana to its east, and has a water border with Michigan to the northeast in Lake Michigan.

^ Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry.

^ Estimate based on the white population "of Spanish mother tongue" in the 1940 Census. Prior to the introduction of 'some other race' as a census category, the vast majority of Hispanics were counted as white, but this estimate may still exclude some non-white Hispanics and those of Hispanic heritage who didn't speak Spanish.

^ Arabs and other Middle Eastern Americans are classified as racially 'white' by the Census Bureau

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Further reading

Bridges, Roger D.; Davis, Rodney O. (1984). Illinois: its history & legacy. St. Louis: River City Publishers.
OCLC 11814096
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Cole, Arthur Charles (1987) [1919]. The era of the Civil War, 1848–1870. Urbana:
OCLC 14130434
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Davis, James E. (1998). Frontier Illinois. Bloomington:
OCLC 39182546
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Grossman, James R.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Reiff, Janice L. (2005) [2004]. Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago (Online ed.). Chicago:
OCLC 60342627. Archived
from the original on June 17, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2009.

Hallwas, John E., ed. (1986). Illinois literature: the nineteenth century. Macomb: Illinois Heritage Press.
OCLC 14228886
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Howard, Robert P. (1972). Illinois; a history of the Prairie State. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
OCLC 495362
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Jensen, Richard E. (2001). Illinois: a history. Urbana:
OCLC 46769728
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Keiser, John H. (1977). Building for the centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898. Urbana:
OCLC 2798051
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Kilduff, Dorrell; Pygman, C. H. (1962). Illinois; History, government, geography. Chicago: Follett.
OCLC 5223888
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Kleppner, Paul (1988). Political atlas of Illinois. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
OCLC 16755435
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Meyer, Douglas K. (2000). Making the heartland quilt: a geographical history of settlement and migration in early-nineteenth-century Illinois. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
OCLC 48139026. Archived
from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2017.

Nowlan, James D.; Gove, Samuel K.; Winkel, Richard J. (2010). Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide. Urbana:
ISBN 978-0-252-07702-9
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Sutton, Robert P. (1976). The Prairie State; a documentary history of Illinois. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
OCLC 2603998
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Walton, Clyde C. (1970). An Illinois reader. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
OCLC 89905
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OCLC 239788752
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[97] Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry.

[105] Estimate based on the white population "of Spanish mother tongue" in the 1940 Census. Prior to the introduction of 'some other race' as a census category, the vast majority of Hispanics were counted as white, but this estimate may still exclude some non-white Hispanics and those of Hispanic heritage who didn't speak Spanish.

[165] Arabs and other Middle Eastern Americans are classified as racially 'white' by the Census Bureau

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