Income Guideline Family Size 200% FPL 85% SMI 2 2,903 4,703 3 3,660 5,809 4 4,417 6,916 5 5,173 8,022 What income is considered poverty level in Illinois? The poverty level in Illinois is based on the federal level. Illinois uses the federal poverty limit as its base for determining […]
There are actually plenty of celebrities that live in Chicago and call the city home. This is because the city still has much to offer in terms of entertainment, film, and digital media. In fact, Chicago was the first central hub for motion picture production and exhibition established in the […]
Living Wage Calculation for Cook County, Illinois 1 ADULT 0 Children 3 Children Living Wage $19.29 $58.97 Poverty Wage $6.19 $12.74 Minimum Wage $12.00 $12.00 What is a livable salary in Chicago? The median income for Chicagoans is $58,247. And to live comfortably in Chicago in a one-bedroom apartment you […]
Chicago and its surrounding area include Cook, Dupage and Will counties in Illinois. These are political boundaries, however; arbitrary divisions superimposed on the landforms – or topography – that predate them. Those landforms include Lake Michigan, the Chicago Plain, the Valparaiso Moraine and the Desplaines Valley. What are some landforms […]
These sediments compacted to form layers of rock that are over 2,000 feet thick in southern Illinois. During this time of oceans and deltas, as tectonic forces gently folded the bedrock of Illinois, a large basin was formed centered in the southeastern part of the state. This basin is known […]
The story of Chicago begins in the 17th century at a place called the Chicago Portage. Located about ten miles west of Lake Michigan, this swampy area provided a crucial link in a transcontinental system of travel. Did Chicago use to be a swamp? In the middle of the 19th […]
Illinois may be home to one of the world’s first-class cities, Chicago, but you’ll be sad to learn that no dinosaurs have ever been discovered here—for the simple reason that this state’s geologic sediments were being eroded away, rather than actively deposited, during most of the Mesozoic Era. What prehistoric […]
Is Chicago built on top of water? In the middle of the 19th century, Chicago was not the shining, modern metropolis it is today. The city was only 4 feet above Lake Michigan at most, built on a swamp. The powers that be hadn’t really thought about how to ensure […]
But Illinois is surprisingly rich in rock and mineral resources, thanks to the great diversity and wealth of materials beneath its land surface. The state contains some of the most interesting mineral and rock specimens in the world. What type of rock is most common here in Illinois? sedimentary rocksMost […]
Although Indiana isn’t a particularly mountainous state, it does contain 377 named high points, the highest of which is Hoosier Hill (1,553ft/382m), and the most prominent of which is Hickman Hill (1,004ft/306m). Where are mountains in Indiana? Hoosier Hill is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Indiana […]
The Mountain States are considered to include: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The words “Mountain States” generally refer to the U.S. States which encompass the U.S. Rocky Mountains. How many US states have mountains? eight US statesThe Mountain States are eight US states in the […]
The “Deserts of Illinois” remain because of their dry nature, and the sand is “forgiving.” The conservation of these areas is critical to the endangered species of Illinois. Why is Illinois so flat? In some places, the moraines blocked the melt waters and formed large lakes that, for a short […]
Although the Midwestern region of the United States is generally flat, it contains some major landforms that vary in elevation, such as rolling hills, rising mountains and descending valleys. Flatter landforms include plains, plateaus and large lakes. Is the Midwest very mountainous region? Geography. The land in the Midwest is […]
The Illinois of 325 to 540 million years ago was a shallow tropical ocean (Fig. 3). Illinois was located almost at the equator at that time. Was Illinois underwater? There was land in North America, even mountain ranges. However, Illinois was part of a low-lying basin covered by a shallow, […]
Illinois is flatter than every state but one, according to researchers, and is less hilly even than Kansas, a place once proven to be flatter than an IHOP pancake. Jerome Dobson, a University of Kansas geographer, set out to compare how flat states actually are with how flat people think […]