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It happens all the time, believe it or not. Sometimes a license plate will fall off your car due to age, rusted screws, or a fender-bender. Other times, someone will take the time to actually steal your license plates. What happens to you in Illinois if someone else decides to use your license plates on their vehicle?

You know what they say: One man's boring place is another man's...uh...hmm...not boring place...? Okay, so no one actually says that. There's no doubt that Illinois does have some really exciting and interesting places, so it should be reasonable to assume that we also have places in our state that are as dull as dirt. Let's look at some of those spots.

Personal finance website WalletHub crunched the numbers in a variety of categories to come up with their 2024 rankings of the best and the worst states to live in. Where do you think the Land of Lincoln ranks, and more importantly, would you put Illinois in the best or worst category?

Forget all those holiday movies that make you think that you can only find "Christmassy" towns somewhere on the East Coast. In a piece on the best towns in America to visit at Christmastime, a Northern Illinois town gets very high marks.

Everybody on Earth knows what city holds the title of being Illinois' largest, but I'm guessing not too many can name our state's smallest town. Now you'll be able to.

Who knew that taking a driver's tips and using them instead to pay the driver wasn't legal or ethical? Alright, I suppose nearly everyone knew that, but it still didn't stop DoorDash from doing it anyway.

It's probably not been the best month or so for the Deerfield, Illinois based company that recently announced they'd be closing over 1,200 locations across the country due to underperforming stores. Now, they're shelling out over $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.

We live in Illinois, so there's no doubt that we're going to be getting snow over the late fall through winter seasons. However, many places in Northern Illinois normally have already had their first snow, but no snow has fallen yet. Let's take a look at how early and how late we've gotten our first snows here in Illinois.

We've all seen amorous humans do some really stupid things in the interests of romance, but it's rare that you see human speed-dating get ruined by a fast-moving pickup truck. That's not the case with Illinois' population of white-tailed deer, who will be looking for love in all the wrong places from now through December.

These checks are really going out to 140,000 Illinois residents for unclaimed property, and the Illinois State Treasurer wants you to know you can go ahead and cash them because this is for real and not a scam.