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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 2895

    Livability

    69


  2. City | Population 116459

    Livability

    68


  3. City | Population 114512

    Livability

    68


  4. City | Population 36856

    Livability

    68


  5. City | Population 29640

    Livability

    68


  6. City | Population 25846

    Livability

    68


  7. City | Population 13227

    Livability

    68


  8. City | Population 10304

    Livability

    68


  9. City | Population 8919

    Livability

    68


  10. City | Population 7469

    Livability

    68


  11. City | Population 2718555

    Livability

    67


  12. City | Population 33463

    Livability

    67


  13. City | Population 29731

    Livability

    67


  14. City | Population 26259

    Livability

    67


  15. City | Population 20480

    Livability

    67


  16. City | Population 19666

    Livability

    67


  17. City | Population 19592

    Livability

    67


  18. City | Population 15632

    Livability

    67


  19. City | Population 8810

    Livability

    67


  20. City | Population 64395

    Livability

    66


  21. City | Population 27419

    Livability

    66


  22. City | Population 23256

    Livability

    66


  23. City | Population 14041

    Livability

    66


  24. City | Population 10234

    Livability

    66


  25. City | Population 7978

    Livability

    66