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If that statement isn't bad enough, Illinois Policy reports that we've also lost three times as many residents in the last decade than any other state in the union.

In the run-up to November's elections, there was a lot of back-and-forth about the so-called "fair" or "progressive" tax, which ended up going down to defeat by a substantial margin.

No, the three towns are not Rockford, Loves Park, and Machesney Park. I'm guessing we would have heard about that by now.

Turns out people spent the last decade moving out of Illinois.

A new poll of registered Illinois voters confirms what many already know: High taxes are the leading reason Illinoisans consider moving out of the state.

What is the population of Rockford? That number is up for debate depending on which direction you enter the city.

Champaign, Elgin, Naperville, Oak Park, Bolingbrook and Aurora are the only cities in Illinois (with populations over 50,000) that showed population growth from July, 2014 to July, 2015, according to some new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

I recently saw a video of people discussing Illinois. One of the questions that came up was "What or where is Downstate Illinois?"

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network
Chicago … the Fourth City ???
Projections cited in a recent story by the Reuters news service say Houston will surpass Chicago in population within ten years: 2.7 million for Houston to 2.5 million for Chicago...

New figures released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau show Rockford's population is declining at a rate surpassed by only a handful of cities across the country.
Officials estimate the number of people living in Rockford has fallen from 153,054 in 2010 to 149,123 in 2014...