Illinois is part of a lucrative yet undesirable club: one of three states, including Mississippi and West Virginia, whose population declined between the 2010 and 2020 U.S. Census. Population loss is a bad sign for any state, as it demonstrates that its citizens believe they can live better lives and obtain higher degrees of human flourishing elsewhere.
Over the past decade, the state’s population decreased by 0.1 percent. But the decline seems to be increasing. According to a report from Mood...
