Illinois, the calm center of hurricane USA. Well, except Chicago. Illinois(pronounced ill-ih-NOY) can be summed up in three words: Chicago, corn, and soybeans. Chicago dominates the northern part of the state with all its hoity-toity commerce, while the rest of the state is smothered in corn and soybeans. To that effect, Illinois contains the soybean capitol of the world¹, Decatur, as well as such oddly-named towns as Oblong, Normal, Kankakee, De Kalb², Dudleyville, Pana, Keys, Riddle Hill, and Cornland³. Then there is the list of names Illinois ripped off of other existing places: Peru, Havana, Paris, Cuba, East St. Louis, West Frankfurt, Rome, Athens, Panama, Bolivia, Toronto, Berlin... the list goes on and on.