A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
The ethanol mandate is a government jobs program now.
At least in northern Illinois, it is not the American prairie that has been converted to agriculture.
That was done decades ago.
It’s been converting marshy areas (via drainage) and wooded areas (via land clearing) to tillable soil.
Same here to in Iroquois county. Before the railroads it was mostly swamp. And very few trees. Today trees are all over except for the farm fields.