Rural illinois has a drug problem. We also have, allegedly, highly placed individuals in the justice system here who have looked the other way on occasion. Manchester is not far from here. There is public housing in our area generally, but unless you’re talking Springfield, I’d guess meth had more to do with this than the ‘Amish.”
Yeah, almost certainly meth-related. There’s a lot of poor white trash out in those small towns. I grew up with them. One childhood acquaintance is in Menard doing life without parole for murdering his parents and brother and another is on death row in Florida.