25 Most Redneck Cities in Illinois [LIST]

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Road Snacks, oh Road Snacks, you are so hilarious.

Every time I check out one of the lists on RoadSnacks.net I am never disappointed. They have a fantastic way of delivering data in the most entertaining ways.

The most recent list on Road Snacks talks about the most redneck cities in Illinois.

Using both dictionary definitions and stereotypical categories, they put together the perfect criteria to determine if a city is redneck or not. This is how they came up with the ranking: 

The dictionary definition categories

• Small towns
• Least amount of high school graduates
• Lives in the south or midwest

And the stereotypical categories

• Number of dive bars per city
• Number of mobile home parks per capita
• Number of tobacco stores per city
• Number of guns and ammo stores per city
• Walmarts, Golden Corrals, Bass Pro Shops, and Dollar Generals nearby

Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a city’s border, as well as within a short driving distance.

 

So what towns ranked highest on the list?

1. Vandalia
2. Mount Vernon
3. Litchfield
4. Chester
5. Jacksonville
6. Harvard
7. Jerseyville
8. Pontiac
9. Effingham
10. Antioch
11. North Riverside
12. Plano
13. Winthrop Harbor
14. Bridgeview
15. Schiller Park
16. Countryside
17. Itasca
18. Harwood Heights
19. Rochelle
20. Norridge
21. Evergreen Park
22. River Forest
23. Chicago Ridge
24. Forest Park
25. Dixon

Where did Rockford Rank? Welp, it didn't! Not on the top 100.

See the full listing here.

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