[SaveTheChief]

I was also born in Illinois and I do not share your opinion. Illinois is a wonderful state.

I think there are many good things about Illinois, including plenty of conservatives (with the exception of that one large city on the lake). Plenty of recreational opportunities exist in downstate Illinois, including boating, fishing, antique shopping, college football in the fall/basketball in the winter, a visit to Galena, some nice state parks.... Sure there is a lot of corn and more hog farms than you can count, but the climate and soil favor that kind of industry.

Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio is in Illinois, plus many other FLW houses. Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the world, featuring excellent museums, the best pizza and hot dogs on Earth, and cultural and entertainment opportunities topped only by New York City. Need I go on?

[eddie willers]

Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the world...

I've visited there three times and thought the same thing.....

Except that they built it 500 miles too far north.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[B Knotts]

Well, I've been to various parts of the state, and the only area I found halfway tolerable is Southern Illinois. People in the rest of the state, especially Northern Illinois, tend to be unfriendly bordering on surly, IMO.

Yes, the food is great in Chicago, but that and Wrigley Field is about the only decent thing about that city.

Illinois politicians are almost openly corrupt, taxes are high, gun laws are absurd, Democrats and RINOs completely control the state and the weather is awful.

But, other than that, it's OK, I guess. :-)

Actually, the cornfields are about the best thing about Illinois. It was a better state when there were more farmers and less Chicagoans.

Sorry to offend, but that's my honest opinion.

[independentmind]

Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the world, featuring excellent museums, the best pizza and hot dogs on Earth, and cultural and entertainment opportunities topped only by New York City. Need I go on?

And don't forget to mention its architecture (downtown, that is). The lakefront of Chicago is an urban jewel--NYC had nothing that can top it.

[mamelukesabre]

All I know about illinois is that everytime I drive accross it on I-80, the G-D roads are always tore up and there's always a traffic jam.

[reg45]

I was also born in Illinois and I do not share your opinion. Illinois is a wonderful state.

If Blago becomes Governor, we should take "Honest Abe" off the license plates and replace him with "Wheeler-Dealer Rostenkowski".

[watcher1]

Illinois is a wonderful state.

If it's so great, why don't you still live there?

Illinois is a politically correct rat hole.
Illinois is also the home of some of the worse gun laws in the country
The most gerrymandered congressional district ( the 17th)
Some of the most crooked politicians in our history
Chicago is being over run with illegal immigrants
Illinois has high taxes, and they're going higher
About the only good thing I can say about the place is that we don't have a motorcycle helmet law.
( Damn!, How'd they miss that!)