More than 2.16 million international visitors came to the state in 2023, up 39 percent from the previous year. Those visitors stimulated the economy with nearly $2.7 billion of spending. The top five countries visitors came from include Canada, Mexico, India, the U.K. and Germany.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
So the people from Mexico are now international permanent tourists.