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Best Cities to Live in Illinois

Best places to live rankings for Illinois are based on livability scores that range from 0 to 100.  These scores are derived from the city’s economics, job opportunity, diversity, wealth inequality, cost of living, education and crime data from the U.S. Census, FBI and other sources including City Stats own gathered data.  There is also a happiness rating we use that comes from a machine learning algorithm that was developed to determine how happy people in each city this is also a weighted factor in the our goal to find the best places in America.

  1. City | Population 777

    Livability

    84


  2. City | Population 771

    Livability

    84


  3. City | Population 708

    Livability

    84


  4. City | Population 667

    Livability

    84


  5. City | Population 648

    Livability

    84


  6. City | Population 646

    Livability

    84


  7. City | Population 638

    Livability

    84


  8. City | Population 629

    Livability

    84


  9. City | Population 576

    Livability

    84


  10. City | Population 563

    Livability

    84


  11. City | Population 549

    Livability

    84


  12. City | Population 526

    Livability

    84


  13. City | Population 517

    Livability

    84


  14. City | Population 506

    Livability

    84


  15. City | Population 482

    Livability

    84


  16. City | Population 479

    Livability

    84


  17. City | Population 476

    Livability

    84


  18. City | Population 472

    Livability

    84


  19. City | Population 466

    Livability

    84


  20. City | Population 442

    Livability

    84


  21. City | Population 424

    Livability

    84


  22. City | Population 363

    Livability

    84


  23. City | Population 361

    Livability

    84


  24. City | Population 354

    Livability

    84


  25. City | Population 347

    Livability

    84