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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Dubuque has some good bones. I qutie embarrasingly haven't been to any downstate Illinois cities, but I imagine some must have good bones (Peoria? looks nice on streetview
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In a perfect world, Peoria would have become the state capital instead of boring old Springfield. Waterfront, proximity to Chicago, etc.
It has every other asset except for a functioning economy, which a capital could have stabilized at least.
https://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/...battle-capital