Day-to-day life often gets in the way of the simple act of looking at your surroundings. If we slow down a little bit, we realize that Illinois is full of beautiful, even jaw-dropping areas. Luckily, these photographers captured parts of Illinois that we might have hurried past:

1. Chicago through the glass
Nicole Yeary/Flickr
2. Northern Illinois cornfield at sunset
James Jordan/Flickr
3. Ferris Wheel, Navy Pier
Roman Boed/Flickr
4. Fountains at Millennium Park, Chicago
Giuseppe Milo/Flickr
5. The Bean, at night
Sergey Gabdurakhmanov
6. Sun rays poking through in St. Charles
Chris Bartnik/Flickr
7. Yellow, fall tree in Lexington, Illinois
Tim/Flickr

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8. Covered bridge, Big Bureau Creek
Roger W/Flickr
9. Farm near Congerville
Tim/Flickr
10. Restored wetland at Chinquapin Bluffs
Tim/Flickr
11. Starved Rock
Meredith Bell/Flickr
12. Old grain elevator, Empire
Ron Frazier/Flickr
13. Wind farm, Bloomington
Chauncey Davis/Flickr
14. Rural McLean County
Tim/Flickr
15. Stagecoach Trail, Galena
Dennis Carr/Flickr

Wow, isn’t our state really the best?

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