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.
The good news is that Illinois has some great lake options. The bad news is that many of them also require some caution due to some natural residents. The fact is that the Illinois lake with the most venomous snakes also happens to be among the most popular.
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.
Are you ready for a popular narrative to be shattered? Those that love to talk about how everyone is leaving Illinois will have some explaining to do as new data from the US Census shows that population in Illinois grew big time in 2024.