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If you're an Illinois homeowner, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you told me that you immediately thought "So does every ****ing person who owns a house in this state!"

You might be thinking to yourself, "Well, a dollar is a dollar wherever you go, right?" That would seem to be the case, but, as a new study by the Tax Foundation found--you'd be wrong.

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network The value of farmland in Illinois continues to rise. The USDA reports that Illinois cropland, worth an average of $4,590 an acre in 2009, has gone up in value every year since, and last year was worth $7,190 an acre – a 56 percent increase...