Biggest Cities in Illinois

I live in Naperville and I could only remember 7, but I do recognize around 6 others names on the list.

My college roommate was from Palatine, and I still didn't get it. Face smack.

lmao got 2 (Chicago and Springfield) and I scored better than 20.2% of people to take this quiz

never heard of Orland Park. Now I'm gonna go google it.

Can you name the 20 biggest cities in Illinois?

Not at all ... stopped at two.

Glad to see that Chicago is at 100%. Would have been a little worried otherwise.

Grew up in IL. Went to U of I in Champaign. My son went to Northwestern in Evanston. He even still lives/works in Chicago. I know IL. The corruption in government there is so deep, so endemic - I just don't know if it can be rooted out. There really isn't a tax problem, or a lack of earnings/wealth to tax. Agreed the state would go bankrupt - but there is no provision in the law/tax code for a state to do so. States are considered to be sovereign, and therefore can tax their way to health. I don't I agree with that conceptually, and I'm pretty sure we're going to find out how it will work in the Land of Lincoln. I live in New Jersey now - some say it's like IL but just a little earlier. I tend to disagree, but how IL manages its current/chronic fiscal crisis will set a pattern that other states will have to follow. The state is nearing the death spiral, as tax increases will inevitably accelerate the inevitable day of reckoning - totally agree there!

I have lived in Chicago for seven years. I have never loved anywhere more, but I too read and hear constantly about the pension crisis. I have no reason to doubt it, but I also must note that businesses and high-earning residents are pouring into the city. There are new high-end condos being built on every corner, it seems. Economics has never been my bailiwick, but I am often perplexed at how the state can at once be in such dire straits and at the same time attract so many competitive businesses and workers. Well at least we have a totally inexperienced and untested governor coming in to figure it all out. That's comforting.

Only got Cicero thanks to Better Call Saul.

The airport in Champaign is the smallest airport I've ever flown out of. 1 small runway, 2 gates, no traffic, almost zero security. Hard to believe that tiny hamlet would feature on the quiz at all much less in the first column, but no wonder this was so hard. Steep drop-off after the first answer.

Only got 2 Chicago because it's obvious and Aurora because of Wayne's World. probably should have guessed Springfield since there seems to be one in every state.

Is Illinois the state with the highest percent of the population in one Metro Area?

Hm. I've never heard that stat, but I would think it very likely. Chicagoland has about 10 million people, and the entire state of Illinois has just under 13 million total. I just googled a couple of other candidates (Atlanta, Phoenix, Portland, Fargo, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City), and none of them really comes close. Atlanta and Portland had the highest percentages out of that group. Both metros both have around 55% of their states' respective populations. Chicagoland has at least 70% of Illinois's population. New York is very tricky because the city's metro area population (around 20 million) is actually higher than New York State's total population (around 19 million), but a whole lot of the New York City metro area population is in New Jersey, and some in Connecticut as well. Not sure how much is actually in New York State.

Boo, I typed champagne instead of the correct spelling :(

I honestly forget a lot of the ones in Cook county are different cities and not parts of Chicago/smaller suburbs