The problems you run into in the southern tip of the state are (a) skeeters as big as small bats, (b) air thick enough to cut with a cutlass in warmer months, ?? a propensity for haze that damages transparency, (d) locals who (i) do not realize that Illinois was a northern state in the Civil War, (ii) also are unaware that the Civil War is over and the Conferderacy lost, and (iii) think corn is a v