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Illinifag here. The state indeed fucking sucks for out /out/ing; what little natural land still exists is fucking impressive but the boomers decimated the entire state because we the prairies gave us the most fertile soil on the planet. They drained the swamps, ground up the tubers and left less than one onehundredth of one percent of historic prairieland.
Places like Apple River canyon, Starved Rock, Garden of the Gods, Illinois Beach state park, and the Midewin National tallgrass prairie are all worth visiting, very unique locals all for their own reasons, but those are basically all the scraps that the boomers left us.
The state is so interesting, we're at the confluence of 2 vast rivers, we've been glaciated more than any other state, we have both arctic flowers and cottonmouth snakes, and our prairies were were biodiverse, impenetrably dense and oceanic in spread, and corporate faggots just had to grow their corn here.
Nobody else cares about the state but me, and it's my dream to buy up as many failed cornfields as I can and repopulate the land with native scenes.
