Illinois Takes Two Spots on List of Top 10 Hardest-Working Small Towns in U.S.

A new list of the nation's Top 10 hardest-working small towns include two suburban cities in Illinois.

The folks over at Zippia, a career website, crunched the numbers from the Census Bureau to figure out who made the cut. They factored in the American Census Survey from 2009 to 2014, and looked at things like: a city’s average hours worked, average commute time, workers per household, labor force participation, and the number of adults with a college degree.

The higher those numbers were, the higher they ranked on the list. New Jersey took a jaw-dropping four spots, but pat yourself on the back, Illinois. Two cities from the Prairie State made the list!

Here are the 10 hardest-working small towns in America, according to Zippia.

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