Update your driver’s license? Get a library card? No, those things don’t prove anything about your residence. If you want to be considered a true Illinoisian, you have to do these 10 things.

1. Pick a side: Cubs or Cards.
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2. Eat at Portillo's. More than once.
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3. Be a total tourist and go to the Willis Tower.
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4. Eat some delicious Illinois corn off the grill at a festival.
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5. Enjoy live music at a jazz club.
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6. Strike that classic pose in front of the house from "Home Alone." Pics or it didn't happen.
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7. Learn how to pronounce the state name correctly...by dropping the S.
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8. Brave the crowds and go to a popular festival.
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9. Go to Springfield and rub Lincoln's nose for luck.
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10. Take a family hike at Starved Rock State Park.
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What else must people do before they can say they are from Illinois?

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