10 Richest Cities in Illinois Includes One an Hour From Rockford

Here's a list of the Top 10 Richest Cities in Illinois. One of them isn't that far from Rockford...Maybe they can share the wealth!

So what makes a city in Illinois, "rich" anyway? I've been through many cities and towns in this state, where I drove through a downtown or found myself on a stretch of road that you think, "this is the good side of town."

According to the YouTube Channel MyDreams473 there's a formula to this extra wealth:

• Population
• Median Income
• Percent of people "Poverty Level"
• Unemployment Rate

With that this is the Top Ten Cities and Towns in Illinois that are the wealthiest:

• 10. Mahomet 
• 9. Volo
• 8. Northbrook
• 7. Long Grove
• 6. Lake Bluff
• 5. Western Springs
• 4. Hawthorne Woods
• 3. Hinsdale
• 2. Winfield
• 1. Inverness

Here's the rich details on #1, Inverness...Just under 8000 people, average income over $180,000, and the unemployment rate is a whopping 1.3%.

So the average income in this town is $185,558...what in the hell does this town do for a living??? That sounds made up, or like a drug dealers paradise....one of the other, or both. To compare that to Rockford, the median income here is $25,772. Now Rockford is WAY bigger than Inverness, Il. (147,000 compared to 7959) But that's quite the difference!

Northbrook, IL is about an hour and twenty minutes from Rockford. Northbrook is a super nice town, and apparently had plenty of money to go around. Average income is $128,000 with over 33,000 people living there.