There is some science to decide what intersections in Illinois are more dangerous than others. Statistically, the most perilous in the Land of Lincoln has a collision rate exceeding all others with nearly 200 collisions and if you've driven through it, you know why.
There are very few movies that bring Illinois to mind more than Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You can see many of the iconic scenes in that movie were really filmed in several Illinois places and a few that weren't, too.
Nature can be awe-inspiring. This is an example of that. There's a new video share of what happened when a mountain-size sheet of ice broke away from the Illinois coastline and floated off into Lake Michigan.
There's a famous movie line about certain people you just can't reason with. That would apply to the 4 worst gangs in the state of Illinois that are seriously just trouble waiting to happen.