• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People hear I’m on the Illinois border with Indiana on the Indiana side and say, “well at least you can get legal weed with a quick drive.” No, because it’s Central Illinois and “ain’t nobody gonna sell no wakky T-bakky in my town,” so if I want to get it that way, I have to drive 90 minutes. Chicago, very liberal. The rest of Illinois, Trump country.

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      1 year ago

      For real, the state is saved by having Chicago in it, otherwise it’d be as much of a shithole state as the surrounding ones.

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      1 year ago

      As someone who’s traveled the whole state, very accurate. Outside of Chicago and the collar counties, the only saving grace is Champaign pretty much. I do like Peoria since I lived there, but it’s a shithole