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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 2977

    Livability

    72


  2. City | Population 2172

    Livability

    72


  3. City | Population 147411

    Livability

    71


  4. City | Population 86791

    Livability

    71


  5. City | Population 55127

    Livability

    71


  6. City | Population 42375

    Livability

    71


  7. City | Population 30854

    Livability

    71


  8. City | Population 29001

    Livability

    71


  9. City | Population 21866

    Livability

    71


  10. City | Population 19112

    Livability

    71


  11. City | Population 18858

    Livability

    71


  12. City | Population 12534

    Livability

    71


  13. City | Population 8958

    Livability

    71


  14. City | Population 7100

    Livability

    71


  15. City | Population 6099

    Livability

    71


  16. City | Population 5612

    Livability

    71


  17. City | Population 5229

    Livability

    71


  18. City | Population 4232

    Livability

    71


  19. City | Population 2345

    Livability

    71


  20. City | Population 1641

    Livability

    71


  21. City | Population 75157

    Livability

    70


  22. City | Population 51282

    Livability

    70


  23. City | Population 30087

    Livability

    70


  24. City | Population 27958

    Livability

    70


  25. City | Population 26032

    Livability

    70