-34 states have a better unemployment rate than IL’s 6.4% as of Nov. 2014

-33 states have a lower rate of households paying over 1/2 their income on rent than IL’s 24.2%

-24 states have a lower poverty rate than IL’s 14.7%

-22 states have a lower uninsured rate among children & working-age adults than IL’s 12.6%

-21 states have a better on-time high school completion rate than IL’s 82%

-17 states have a lower food insecurity rate than IL’s 14.2%

-15 states have a lower asset poverty rate than IL’s 23.5%

Key Findings

5th largest state

home to over 12.8 million people

at $721 billion, IL economy is 5th largest in U.S.