I'm trying to compare a "Bush Country" county map to a county map of Illinois (The bush Country map doesn't blow up real clearly).
If I'm reading this right...
>the Chicago area went Gore - all lakefront counties;
>Seven counties in Northwest Illinois stretching from Carroll county down to Peoria went Gore;
>A Cluster of counties near East St. Louis went Gore (more heavily black? I know down here in the South the closer to the river a county is the more likely it has a high black population)
>Champaign county (college town, right?)
>Lasalle county and a couple of others (don't know the stories on these)
I could be reading it wrong - a better researcher than me can probably find a rundown on it.
Long story short, there ARE apparently Democrat pockets of note outside of Chicago.
Champaign-Urbana is where the main campus of the Univerity of Ill. is and it's HUGH!