While it is far from the worst place in the world, Illinois has some pretty strange qualities, a lot of which its residents do not admire.

For example, we haven't had a state budget for the past the year.

The weather does pretty much whatever it wants.

And everyone thinks that because your from Illinois, you must live in Chicago.

Chicago is pretty great though.

I mean, the Chicago Cubs did win the 2016 World Series.

The rest of Illinois deserves some credit too.

Sure, outside of Chicago you mostly just see corn. Everywhere.

And if you're from central Illinois, you've probably visited Abe Lincoln's house/tomb/museum multiple times.

But Central Illinois is home of the delicious horseshoe,

The world's largest catsup bottle,

And Morton, Illinois is the "pumpkin capitol of the world."

So even though we've had four out of the past seven governors incarcerated,

Illinois is still a pretty cool place!