ILLINOIS: Almost All White Towns In A Diverse State - This Is What They Look Like

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• CJ

  @cjord6919 · 1 year ago

  Several years ago, a Chicago radio station used to play a commercial tune that was “Just outside Chicago, there is a place called Illinois.”

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• AC

  @actionsub · 3 years ago

  With regard to the ubiquity of Dollar General stores, the chain has been very aggressive about placing stores in smaller communities too small to sustain a Walmart or Target store.  In some cases the Dollar G is literally the only place in these towns to get groceries without having to go a distance to a full grocery.

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• DA

  @Dave_Mayberry · 1 year ago (edited)

  It’s “Pain-a” My maternal grandmother was born there, and our family cemetery is on the outskirts of town.

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• TH

  @The1ByTheSea · 2 years ago

  Southern Illinois ,Southern Indiana and Southern Ohio are a different world than their cities .People think of Illinois,Indiana and Ohio as highly industrialized:yes .In the North and cities .The south of these states is pretty rural .

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• ER

  @ericleckey · 3 years ago (edited)

  In case this has not already been mentioned.  Hillsboro does have an all-male Illinois prison called Graham Correctional Center with an average daily population of around 1900.   This would without a doubt skew the stats in regard to the male-female ratio as well as "other races" in an otherwise typical small Illinois town.  Prison populations are used in the official stats of a community.  This is often used by the local communities in IL especially when they are small.  They do this to make a case for financial aid in form of grants and money from the state of IL.  So, if Hillsboro has a population of about 5,800 people around 1900 are from the Prison.

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• SK

  @skivvywaver · 3 years ago

  Christmas decorations in small towns are usually put up by older volunteers. Even the Lions club is aging around here. My old ass isn't going to climb around outside until it warms up. I guess theirs isn't either.

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• TR

  @trinkatoxic9197 · 3 years ago

  Currently living in ,Pana. The town is tearing down most of these buildings.   The town is working on revitalizing downtown.  Pana will be  better soon.

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• KE

  @kentuckypride3802 · 3 years ago

  I absolutely love driving the backroads. Small town USA usually always has me in a good mood.

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• KE

  @Kershawsandwich · 3 years ago

  Champaign Ill, the home of REO Speedwagon 😅 RIP Gary Richrath .

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• NA

  @nativegarden9845 · 1 year ago

  As a teenager in the 70's, I worked part-time after school at a florist in Springfield, IL, and at that time, all of the florist shops in central IL bought their roses from Pana greenhouses.  A huge industry.

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• LI

  @littlecatfeet9064 · 3 years ago

  Appreciate your conversion into celsius for us foreigners. I hope developers don’t get hold of those beautiful old buildings and ruin their character, but I hope they don’t become ghost towns either. Small town America is uniquely beautiful.

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• FA

  @familiecole · 3 years ago

  The church reminded me of northern Germany. &nbsp;I lived in Mecklenburg for some time where the architectural style ‘red brick Gothic’ (Backsteingotik or Backsteinromanik) influences public buildings everywhere. &nbsp;You could transplant that church and place it in any north German, Dutch or Baltic town and it wouldn’t be out of place.<br><br><br>Perhaps there was a strong German presence in that part of Illinois as the town’s community was being established.

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