No, Illinois is Chicago in disguise. I give up trying to tell y'all that Chicago take up about a small itsy corner compared to the whole of IL. OUR CAPITAL IS NOT CHICAGO!! -.- It's Springfield. But oh well.
Anyways, yes, it is freaking huge, we passed by it when we visited for Thanksgiving. About seventy times the size of my school right now. I can run a lap around ours in about a minute. -.- Kinda..sad. (So, that's over/underexageration, but it all equals the same). Bleh.