2025 Compare Cities Health:
Decatur, IL vs East Chicago, IN

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Highlights
- There are 177 physicians per 100,000 people in East Chicago.
- There are 217 physicians per 100,000 people in Decatur.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Decatur, ILEast Chicago, INUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock6558.4
 Water Quality (100=best)20  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock74.986.9
 Physicians per Cap.217  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock85100
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Reviews for Decatur    14 Reviews

I was sent here by the company I worked for in the '90's and was not initially impressed with midwest living. However, over the years I got used to living in the "Pride  More

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I grew up in Decatur and I still have family there, but it depresses me to see what it has become. It has a high unemployment rate, many business have closed or are run  More

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Over 14 years ago

If you enjoy drinking & driving, Decatur's fifteen drive-thru liquor windows, three times the # of drive-thru's than the ten largest cities in Illinois, COMBINED, will  More

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Reviews for East Chicago    2 Reviews

Do not move to East Chicado Indiana. No jobs high crimes and many Chicagoans out here now. I would'nt say that's a bad thing because the kids that are born and raise in  More

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Over 16 years ago

I was born and raise in East Chicago, In. and over the years I have seen vast decay of a once very vibrant and beautiful city...crime is out of control...the politics  More

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