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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 7829

    Livability

    66


  2. City | Population 26884

    Livability

    65


  3. City | Population 19336

    Livability

    65


  4. City | Population 2512

    Livability

    65


  5. City | Population 14804

    Livability

    64


  6. City | Population 12538

    Livability

    64


  7. City | Population 31554

    Livability

    63


  8. City | Population 11064

    Livability

    63


  9. City | Population 12539

    Livability

    62


  10. City | Population 8122

    Livability

    62


  11. City | Population 514

    Livability

    62


  12. City | Population 5055

    Livability

    55