Population and Housing
1 Population
2 Housing

Human Resources
3 Health and Vital Statistics
4 Elementary & Secondary Education
5 Higher Education

Employment
6 Labor Force Statistics
7 Employment by Industry
8 Employment, Weekly Hours, & Weekly Earnings

Income
9 Personal Income & Earnings
10 Farm Income & Expenditures
11 Transfer Payments

Economic Activity
12 Gross State Product
13 Consumer Price Indexes & Inflation Rates
14 Business Activity
15 Building Permits
16 Exports & Export Dependent Employment

Economic Sectors
17 Agriculture
18 Manufacturing
19 Services
20 Wholesale Trade
21 Retail Trade
22 Retail Sales
23 Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate
24 Transportation
25 Energy

Public Sector
26 Public Finance
27 Crime and Law Enforcement

Parks and Recreation
28 Parks and Recreation

Reference
Appendix I Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Appendix II Standard Industrial Classifications
Appendix III Employment Data Notes
Appendix IV Sources
Index

Population
Table 1-10 is new to the Illinois Statistical Abstract. This table contains the components of population change in Illinois since the 1990 Census of Population. Since that time births have outpaced deaths by nearly two to one, but net domestic migration has drained over 400,000 people from the state. Table 1-12 provides updated poverty statistics for 1993. The poverty rate for all ages in Illinois was 13.4 percent, below the national rate of 15.1 percent. The Illinois rate for persons under the age of 18 was also below the national average but was 20.4 percent. New statistics about the age of the Illinois population are available in Table 1-7. Race and ethnicity data have been updated in Table 1-8.  Data from the 1990 Census of Population on Marital Status by sex were published in previous editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract. These data are available upon request from the Office of Research, address on page ii.

Housing
In real dollars, the median sale price of an existing home in Illinois was unchanged between 1996 and 1997. The most notable exception to this trend was the city of Rockford where median housing prices fell nearly 3.5 percent in real terms. Housing characteristics such as these are provided in Section 2. Table 2-15 data are from the Illinois Association of Realtors. All other data are from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing.

Health & Vital Statistics
Data on long-term care facilities in Tables 3-9, 3-10 and 3-11 are new to the Illinois Statistical Abstract. Table 3-9 provides data on the number of residents in these facilities by illness. In 1996, there were 9,827 Alzheimer's patients in these facilities. Table 3-10 provides personnel data for long-term care facilities. In Illinois, registered nurses at these facilities outnumbered doctors nearly 13 to 1 in 1996. Table 3-11 provides information on the number of licensed long-term care beds. Data on the number of deaths by cause, previously published in the Illinois Statistical Abstract, are no longer available. The 1998 data for Table 3-7, Licensed Health Care Professionals, were not available at the time of publication.

Elementary & Secondary Education
Secondary graduates from Illinois public schools decreased by 0.3 percent between the 1994-95 and 1995-96 school years while secondary enrollment increased 0.9 percent. The number of secondary graduates has vacillated on a two-year cycle since the 1990-91 school year. Elementary enrollment increased by 1.1 percent between the same school years. In addition to these enrollment changes, expenditures on instruction increased 4.6 percent.

Higher Education

Labor Force
Six Illinois counties had double digit inflation rates in 1997. Two of these six counties experienced an increase in the unemployment rate between 1996 and 1997. The Jasper county unemployment rate increased the most with a jump from 7.5 percent in 1996 to 12.03 percent in 1997. Most of the Jasper county increase is due to a loss of 236 manufacturing jobs as reported in Section 7, Employment by Industry. The first six tables of Section 6 provide the unemployment rate and its components for Illinois counties and cities.  Data on the number of unemployed were discontinued in the 1995 Illinois Statistical Abstract to allow the inclusion of longer time series of data and labor force statistics by city. Users may calculate the number of unemployed by subtracting employment from labor force. These data are also available from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, at the address listed on page ii.

Employment by Industry
Total employment in Illinois increased 2.2 percent in 1997, the fifth straight year of employment increases. In percentage terms, the increase in farm employment outpaced nonfarm employment, but as a whole, farm employment is still less than 2 percent of the state's total. In 1996 the Bureau of Economics Analysis reestimated all county level data. Therefore, data in the 1998 Illinois Statistical Abstract is not comparable to some previous editions. Similarly, state summary data contained in Table 7-1 is also not comparable to editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract prior to 1997.

Employment, Weekly Earnings, & Weekly Hours
Real weekly earnings in manufacturing have decreased over the past ten years in Illinois, following the trend for the entire country. Only two metropolitan statistical areas saw positive real earnings changes: Kankakee and Bloomington-Normal. Employment, hours, and earnings data are comparable to data in Section 8 of the 1994 through 1997 editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics updated some of the tables in 1995 to 1992 MSA definitions. Those using data from before 1992 should carefully read the footnotes for each table.

Personal Income & Earnings
Per capita personal income in Illinois rose to $27,929 in 1997, a 1.7% increase in real terms from 1996. Personal income is the income received from all sources by the residents of a given area; it is a broader measure than earnings. Earnings include only labor income and exclude income sources such as interest, dividends, and transfer payments.  In 1993 the Bureau of Economic Analysis reestimated all county level data. Therefore, data in the 1993 through 1998 editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract are not comparable to those in previous editions. Similarly, the BEA reestimated all state summary data in 1996. Therefore, data in Table 9-1 of the 1997 and 1998 editions is not comparable to previous editions.

Farm Income & Expenditures
Illinois crop receipts increased 12 percent from 1996 to 1997. The largest increases occurred in corn and soybeans while sorghum and oats receipts decreased slightly. Receipts from livestock dropped slightly in 1997 due to decreases in all types of livestock.   Table 10-1 summarizes these trends for the state and the remaining tables provide county level estimates. Tables 10-2 through 10-7 cover farm receipts; Tables 10-8 through 10-15 provide expense data; and Tables 10-16 through 10-21 detail inventory changes and net farm income estimates.  In 1993 the Bureau of Economic Analysis reestimated all county level data using a 1969 base. Therefore, data in the 1993 through 1996 editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract are not comparable to those in previous editions. Similarly, in 1996 the data in Table 10-1 was reestimated for all years therefore data in the 1998 Illinois Statistical Abstract may not be comparable with previous editions.

Transfer Payments
Total transfer payments in Illinois reached $46.6 billion in 1997. Much of the increase came from higher transfers for medical care, both Medicare and Medicaid. Despite the general increase, transfers for unemployment insurance fell 29.3 percent.  Table 11-1 is a ten-year summary of Illinois state data while Tables 11-2 through 11-7 provide county data on various payment types. Tables 11-8 through 11-19 provide information about the recipients of transfer payments. These tables also contain estimates of transfer payments that may be compared with the number of recipients. However, due to the use of different time periods or estimation methods, these estimates are likely to differ from the estimates in Tables 11-1 through 11-7.  In 1993 the Bureau of Economic Analysis reestimated all county level data using a 1969 base. Therefore, data published in editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract prior to 1993 are not comparable to those in this edition. Similarly in 1996 the BEA reestimated all state summary tables. Thus data in Table 11-1 of the 1998 Illinois Statistical Abstract is not comparable to some previous editions.

Gross State Product
Real gross state product (GSP) continued to rise in all industries through 1997. However, projections through 2001 suggest that after the turn of the century, GSP will begin to decline.  GSP is the state counterpart of U.S. Gross Domestic Product and is regarded as the most comprehensive measure of production for a state. Nominal GSP, provided in Table 12-1, reflects the yearly market value of the state's output. Real GSP, provided in Table 12-2, is adjusted for inflation so that annual changes more accurately reflect changes in physical output.  The source of these data is the Illinois Econometric Model maintained by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Office of Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In previous editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract, historical Gross Domestic Product data were obtained from another source; therefore the data in this section are not comparable to 1994 and earlier editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract.  All real GSP data are now in 1992 constant dollars. Therefore, data in the 1998 Illinois Statistical Abstract are not directly comparable with editions prior to 1996.

Consumer Price Index & Inflation Rates
Inflation remained at very low levels in 1997. The rates in all major categories for the U.S. fell from the previous year except Apparel and Upkeep, which saw 0.2 percent deflation in 1996 but 0.9 percent inflation in 1997. The most precipitous fall came in Energy, where the inflation rate fell 72 percent during the course of the year.   Beginning with 1997, the North Central region was renamed Midwest Urban. Within the new Midwest Urban region, the population size subcategories, B and C, are now combined with a base year 1996=100.

Table
13-1 Consumer Price Index: All Items
13-2 Inflation Rates: All Items
13-3 CPI and Inflation Rate: All Commodities
13-4 CPI and Inflation Rate: All Services
13-5 CPI and Inflation Rate: Food and Beverages
13-6 CPI and Inflation Rate: Housing
13-7 CPI and Inflation Rate: Apparel and Upkeep
13-8 CPI and Inflation Rate: Transportation
13-9 CPI and Inflation Rate: Medical Care
13-10 CPI and Inflation Rate: Energy

Business Activity
Nonbusiness bankruptcies continued to skyrocket in 1997, up 18 percent since 1996 and 72 percent since 1994. Business bankruptcies remained somewhat constant over the same period.   Continued strong economic performance is reflected in the downward trend of downtown office vacancy rates. In Chicago, the rate as of June 1998 reached its lowest point since December of 1989 at 11.1 percent. Still, this rate is above the national average of 9.7 percent.

Building Permits
Newly authorized, privately-owned housing units fell 6.6 percent in 1997, driven mostly by a fall in one unit housing. Despite the fall, new authorizations are still up 41 percent since 1991 when the market bottomed out. Authorizations for housing with five or more units increased in 1997, led by changes in three Metropolitan Statistical Areas. In the Campaign-Urbana, these authorizations increased from 137 to 838. In Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, they increased from 204 to 659, and in Decatur, they jump from zero to 132. Most other MSAs had slight decreases.

Exports & Export-Dependent Employment
Canada imported $9.6 billion in Illinois goods in 1997, up from $8.1 billion and leading all importing nations. Germany, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom also import more than $1 billion each in Illinois goods. The leading categories of exports were industrial machinery, computer equipment (SIC 35) and electronic and electric equipment (SIC 36).   Time series for Tables 16-1 and 16-2 are available by request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, at the address on page ii.

Agriculture
Foreign ownership of Illinois land fell slightly between 1995 and 1996, but Germany remained the largest foreign landholder with over 80,000 acres. Cash receipts for corn and wheat rose between 1994 and 1995 while soybeans fell. The fall in soybeans is the first since 1991 and reflects the lower yield that year of 39 bushel per acre. Yields in 1997 for corn and soybeans are relatively unchanged from 1996, but the yield for wheat jumped from 38 to 61 bushels per acre.

Table
17-1 Farms and Their Value
17-2 Market Value of Vegetables, Sweet Corn, and Melons
17-3 Sales and Market Value of Nursery and Greenhouse Crops
17-4 Corn, Planted and Harvested
17-5 Acreage of Corn Harvested for Grain
17-6 Average Yield of Corn Harvested for Grain
17-7 Cash Receipts for Corn
17-8 Soybeans, Planted and Harvested
17-9 Acreage of Soybeans Harvested for Beans
17-10 Average Yield of Soybeans Harvested for Beans
17-11 Cash Receipts for Soybeans
17-12 Wheat, Planted and Harvested
17-13 Acreage of Wheat Harvested for Grain
17-14 Average Yield of Wheat Harvested for Grain
17-15 Cash Receipts for Wheat
17-16 Total Cash Receipts for All Grain
17-17 Chicken Inventory and Sales
17-18 Market Value of Poultry and Poultry Products
17-19 Number of All Types of Cattle
17-20 Value of All Types of Cattle
17-21 Number of Beef Cows
17-22 Cash Receipts for Cattle and Calves
17-23 Number of Hogs and Pigs
17-24 Value of Hogs and Pigs
17-25 Cash Receipts for Hogs and Pigs
17-26 Cash Receipts for Dairy Products
17-27 Average Number of Milk Cows and Production
17-28 Cash Receipts for all Livestock and Animal Products
17-29 Illinois Agricultural Landholdings of Foreign Owners
17-30 Acres of Landholdings by Country of Foreign Owner
17-31 Farm Business Balance Sheet Components

Manufacturing
Section 18 presents data on manufacturing industries, by industry, for Illinois in 1992. Data from the 1997 Census of Manufactures will be available in 1999.   The source of these data is the Census of Manufactures, Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. Data for previous economic census years were presented in earlier editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract and are available upon request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, at the address on page ii.  Employment data in Section 18 are not directly comparable to employment data in other sections of the Illinois Statistical Abstract. For an explanation of the differences in the data, refer to Appendix III, Employment Data.

Table
18-1 Manufacturing, All Products, 1992
13-2 Food and Kindred Products (SIC 20)
18-3 Tobacco Products (SIC 21)
18-4 Textile Mill Products (SIC 22)
18-5 Apparel and Other Textile Mill Products (SIC 23)
18-6 Lumber and Wood Products (SIC 24)
18-7 Furniture and Fixtures (SIC 25)
18-8 Paper and Allied Products (SIC 26)
18-9 Printing and Publishing (SIC 27)
18-10 Chemicals and Allied Products (SIC 28)
18-11 Petroleum and Coal Products (SIC 29)
18-12 Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastic Products (SIC 30)
18-13 Leather and Leather Products (SIC 31)
18-14 Stone, Clay and Glass Products (SIC 32)
18-15 Primary Metal Industries (SIC 33)
18-16 Fabricated Metal Products (SIC 34)
18-17 Industrial Machinery and Equipment (SIC 35)
18-18 Electronic and Other Electric Equipment (SIC 36)
18-19 Transportation Equipment (SIC 37)
18-20 Instruments and Related Products (SIC 38)
18-21 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries (SIC 39)

Services
The number of employees in most categories of services increased between 1994 and 1995. The largest gains were made in business services (SIC 73) and engineering and management services (SIC 87).  Data for this chapter come from the 1992 Census of Services and from more recent employment and payroll data provided by the Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census. Tables with data for 3-digit SIC codes were published in the 1996 Illinois Statistical Abstract. They are available on the Illinois Statistical Abstract CD-Rom and are also available upon request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, at the address on page ii.   The data presented in Section 19 are only a fraction of what are frequently considered service industries. Retail Trade (Section 20), Wholesale Trade, (Section 21), and Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (Section 23) are also often included in services statistics.

Wholesale Trade
This section presents some data on wholesale trade for Illinois in 1992. New information from the 1997 Census of Wholesale Trade will be available in 1999. Tables with data for 3-digit SIC codes were published in previous editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract and are available upon request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, address on page ii.  Tables 20-4 through 20-6 contain 1994 and 1995 establishment, employment and payroll data from the Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census.   Establishments that sell merchandise primarily to retailers, industries, other commercial establishments, institutions, or professional business users are classified under wholesale trade in the Standard Industrial Classification system (Appendix II). Establishments that sell merchandise primarily for personal/household consumption are classified as retail trade establishments. However, lumber yards; paint, glass, and wallpaper stores; stationary stores, and gasoline service stations are classified under retail trade unless they serve only businesses or institutions.

Retail Trade
The number of mid-march employees in most sectors of retail trade rose between 1994 and 1995. One of the few exceptions was in apparel and accessory stores where the number fell by 3 percent.  This section presents some data on retail trade for Illinois in 1992. New information from the 1997 Census of Retail Trade will be available in 1999. Tables with data for 3-digit SIC codes were published in previous editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract and are available upon request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, address on page ii.  Tables 21-10 through 21-17 contain 1994 and 1995 establishment, employment and payroll data from the Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census.   Establishments that sell merchandise primarily for personal/household consumption are classified as retail trade establishments in the Standard Industrial Classification system (Appendix II). Establishments that sell merchandise primarily to retailers, industries, other commercial establishments, institutions, or professional business users are classified under wholesale trade. However, lumber yards, paint, glass, and wallpaper stores, stationery stores, and gasoline service stations are classified under retail trade unless they serve only businesses or institutions.

Retail Sales
Retail sales are estimated by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, using county and municipal tax receipts reported in Sales Tax Receipts Reported by Standard Industrial Code obtained from the Department of Revenue, State of Illinois. Prior to 1997, the Department of Revenue used "Kind of Business" instead of Standard Industrial Codes to report different sectors of the tax receipt data. Thus, in Tables 22-2 through 22-6, data for years prior to 1997 are not directly comparable to 1997 data.

Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate
In 1996, 64 percent of the loans in Illinois used real estate or motor vehicles as collateral while 5 percent were unsecured. Loan amounts were typically very small, though, with 84 percent of loans at less than $3,000.  Establishment data for financial institutions with 3-digit SIC codes were published in the 1995 and 1996 editions of the Illinois Statistical Abstract. These data are available upon request from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, at the address on page ii.  Tables 23-1 through 23-4 and 23-10 contain establishment data for financial institutions from the Census of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate from the Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. Data about insurance company operations are in Tables 23-5 through 23-7. Table 23-8 contains data about loans and information about credit unions appears in Table 23-9.

Transportation
The number of people killed in motor vehicle accidents in Illinois fell in 1996 to 1,477. Since peaking in 1988 when the maximum speed limit was raised, deaths have fallen 21 percent. Most of the changes occurred in the more densely populated metropolitan areas. The number of deaths in non-metropolitan areas has remained relatively constant.  Table 24-10 on safety belt usage is new to the Illinois Statistical Abstract. In July 1997, the safety belt usage rate was estimated at 64 percent. Large discrepancies were recorded on different types of roadways with interstate usage as high as 75.5 percent and residential usage only 58.7 percent.

Energy
Illinois energy consumption increased 9 percent in the five-year period from 1991 to 1995. Reliance on petroleum has increased the most over this period, but in the last year, natural gas and nuclear power have increased sharply.  Section 25 presents data on Illinois energy consumption and energy production.

Public Finance
In Illinois, tax revenues rose 22 percent in fiscal year 1998. Sales tax revenues led this increase rising from $4.99 billion in FY1997 to $ 7.77 billion in FY1998. Increased consumption due to the continuing economic expansion is the most probable cause.  Table 26-1 contains data for tax and non-tax payments to all types of governments. Tables 26-2 and 26-3 present data on the finances of the state government of Illinois. Table 26-4 contains federal expenditures in many categories. Tables 26-5 and 26-6 contain local tax data such as tax rates and property taxes

Crime & Law Enforcement
The crime rate in Illinois fell 2.8 percent in 1997 to 5,245.8 crimes per 100,000 people, continuing the downward trend started in 1994. Winnebago leads Illinois counties with a crime rate of 7,961 crimes per 100,000 people. Peoria, which led in 1996, saw a dramatic 12.5 percent fall in crimes in 1997. Putnam and Brown counties are the two safest, both have crime rates of less than 800 per 100,000 people.  Because data from the Department of Corrections was available more quickly than in past years, the 1998 Illinois Statistical Abstract contains crimes by county for both 1996 and 1997

Parks and Recreation
Revenues at most of the state's largest casinos fell in 1997. In fact, total casino revenue for the state fell nearly 7 percent, the first decrease in revenue since casinos began operating in Illinois. As a result, casino tax revenue declined as well, falling nearly 6 percent over the same period.  Table 28-14, which contains data on participants and expenditures in hunting and fishing, is new to the Illinois Statistical Abstract. The number of hunters in Illinois decreased 5.5 percent between 1991 and 1996 though expenditures by in-state hunters rose 66 percent in the same time period. Fishing in Illinois has changed little over this five year period. The number of anglers fell less than 1 percent, but the number of days fishing rose by 22 percent.