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Originally Posted by Crawford
I mean, is Downstate IL an obvious tourist draw? No doubt there are some interesting locales, but most of Downstate is just an endless cornfield for industrial farming.
Yes, deep southern IL has some elevation and forest, but that's a long way from Chicagoland, much further from very pretty scenery in MI and WI.
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I’ve only seen far southern IL marketing campaigns on TV in far southern Illinois. The forested/touristy/hilly area is really small in comparison to the Missouri Ozarks (and doesnt have the prolific wide spring fed rivers nor the Lake of the Ozarks/Table Rock/Branson shit) and western KY has KY lake which is a pull (away from southern IL). Southern IL doesnt have a larger metro area or three fueling tourist economies. Up North/Wisco/Ozarks/KY-TN are all drawing dollars away from IL.