Finding Statistics & Data (A How-to Guide): Illinois

ICJIA maintains a clearinghouse of criminal justice and risk factor datasets collected by other state agencies. The most current data available is listed here, including associated rates that are calculated with census data and county-level estimates.

Includes demographic information on inmates.

Data on Illinois colleges and universities, including enrollment figures, cost, and financial aid. Click on the Research & Data tab.

Provided by the Illinois State Board of Education. Families, researchers, policy makers, and community members can use the site to find school data, including academic performance, school environment, educators, students, and highlights provided by principals.

State department responsible for protecting the health of its 12 million residents and visitors through the prevention and control of disease and injury.

Find downloadable & interactive national and state-level data from the National Cancer Society. Topics include estimated new cancer cases and deaths by sex, state, and cancer type in the current year; current cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for individual cancer sites; risk factors; screening rates by state.

Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Demographic information from the 2010 Census.

This profile contains demographic and economic facts about the Hispanic and non-Hispanic populations in the state of Illinois. All analyses are from Pew Research Center tabulations of the 1% Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) sample of the 2014 American Community Survey.

Economy at a glance.

Many different reports listing the State of Illinois tax revenue from different years.

From the Illinois Department of Employment Security.