Commentary: Illinois downstaters and their city ‘cousins’ live in different worlds
by Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune
Jan 20, 2024
3 minutes
Rural and urban Illinoisans live in starkly different worlds, and the former resent it, though they don’t clearly understand why. There are textbook solutions, such as better education and higher parental expectations in rural Illinois. I wish I could be optimistic.
I have lived most of my 82 years in rural Illinois, yet much of my work is in the city. I am an Amtrak regular. I quaff Modelo beers with my buddies in their seed corn caps at a tavern on the outskirts of my hometown and
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