The Top 10 Drunkest Cities in the Land of Lincoln

With Chicago’s many bars and much-stereotyped drinking culture, not to mention the dozens of colleges campuses all around the state, it’s not super surprising to hear that Illinois is the state with the 6th-highest propensity for binge drinking in the country, according to NPR.

But what about within the state? Which areas have residents who are most likely to knock back one or two (or three or four) regularly? The website RoadSnacks took a look at different cities within Illinois and picked the 10 they think are the “drunkest.”

The site used the less-than- scientific method of calculating the drunkest spots by looking at how many places there are to buy alcohol within a specific area as well as how often people talk about drinking on social media in that area. Possibly less telling, they also added in the criterion of how many divorced people live in certain locales. A description of the drinking culture of each city was included in their list.

Here are the 10 drunkest cities in Illinois, according to RoadSnacks.

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