Unhealthy Illinois

I just came across a study which ranks the 102 counties in Illinois based on their overall health.

Some of the criteria used were:

- mortality rates

- high school graduation rates

- obesity rates

- access to healthy food (I'm not exactly sure what this one means? how far you have to drive to what? a Subway?)

Anyway, 9 of the 10 most unhealthy counties are south of I-70, in the southern 1/3 of the state:

How about the healthy counties? The ones where people live a joyous life, eating tofu daily and running 5K's each weekend?

For the most part, it looks like west=health:

My home county (Edgar) was 62.

My adopted county (Macon) was 84.

Hmmmm.... guess we still need more Subways.

MattChat