Lee County, IL

County

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    US Senator
    N/ADick Durbin
    Democratic Party
    US Senator
    N/ATammy Duckworth
    Democratic Party

    About

    N/A of the households in Lee County, IL reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.

    Economy

    Employment by Industry Sector

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    2.47%
    Year-over-year growth
    Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

    As of February 2023, there are 6.03M people employed in Illinois. This represents a 2.47% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

    Right after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, during April 2020, a general dip can be seen across industry sectors, resulting in an overall decline in employment by 13%.

    The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in Illinois.

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    Payroll by Industry Sector

    The industries with the highest total annual payroll
    1. $199k
      Manufacturing
    2. $105k
      Health Care and Social Assistance
    3. $47.5k
      Retail Trade

    The chart shows the total annual payroll and the average annual payroll by industry.

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    Civics

    Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are the senators currently representing the state of Illinois. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.

    Illinois is currently represented by 17 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.

    US Senators from Illinois

    N/ADick Durbin
    Senator from Illinois2
    Assumed office on January 3, 1997
    N/ATammy Duckworth
    Senator from Illinois3
    Assumed office on January 3, 2017

    Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are the senators currently representing Illinois.

    In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.

    The following chart shows elected senators in Illinois over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.

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    Education

    Most students graduating from Universities in Lee County, IL are White (513 and 76.6%), Hispanic or Latino (101 and 15.1%), Unknown (20 and 2.99%), and Black or African American (15 and 2.24%).

    Student Diversity

    In N/A, N/A men were awarded degrees from institutions in Lee County, IL, which is N/A times N/A than the N/A female students who received degrees in the same year.

    In 2024, the most common race/ethnicity group awarded degrees at institutions was White students. These 513 degrees mean that there were 5.08 times more degrees awarded to White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Hispanic or Latino, with 101 degrees awarded.

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    Housing & Living

    Car Ownership

    2 cars
    Average Number

    The following chart displays the households in Lee County, IL distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Lee County, IL have 2 cars.

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