10 Dumbest Towns in Illinois

With the University of Chicago and its resident geniuses on the South Side and Northwestern University to the north with its brainy Wildcats, Illinois intellectual bonafides are more than covered. And let’s add in the brainpower at Fermilab in Batavia, America’s premier particle physics laboratory, and Argonne National Lab near Lemont, with its focus on energy research and national security.

Check out the big brain on the Land of Lincoln, why don’t you?

Sadly, however, we have our dumb spots. And not just in the state capital. Where are the 10 Dumbest Cities in Illinois? RoadSnack.net, an infotainment data analytics website specializing in obscure research about local places, tried to answer that question by:

• measuring the high school graduation rate for the population
• counting the educational opportunities
• considering the bar-to-library ratio

Another interesting fact about all of these towns? More men live in them than women, according to RoadSnack. And so, here are the 10 dumbest cities in Illinois.

Coming in at No. 1 ...

1. Posen: no library, and more than one-third of the little south suburban town’s population lacks a high school diploma
2. Cicero
3. Melrose Park
4. LaSalle
5. Carpentersville
6. Belvidere
7. Dixon
8. Crest Hill
9. Glendale Heights
10. Pontiac

» to read up on the Dumbest 10, visit RoadSnack.net