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#7 Sleep in the City Study

#7 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#7 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

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#8 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#9 Gloomiest Places in America

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#10 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#10 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#13 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#13 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Best Baseball Cities

#14 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#16 America's Most Playful Cities

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#19 The Most Single Cities

#20 America's Top Hygge Cities

#21 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#22 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#24 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#25 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#26 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#27 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#27 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#27 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#29 Healthiest Cities

#29 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#31 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#34 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#35 Failure To Lunch

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#36 Hypertension Hot Spots

#36 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#45 2005 High Gas Prices

#46 America’s Manliest Cities

#46 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#49 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#55 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#57 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#77 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#82 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#90 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#155 2005 Best Places to Live

#192 Best Green Cities

#4 Best Green Cities

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#9 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#12 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#17 The Most Single Cities

#20 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#30 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#33 2005 High Gas Prices

#47 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#63 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#63 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#71 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#89 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#251 2005 Best Places to Live

Great people, beautifully diverse. All live and work together to provide the best for all residents. Lake County College is completing a 40 million dollar building  More

We're looking for a moderate climate. Waukegan is on Lake Michigan and could have a dynamic vibrant downtown but it doesn't. Great master plan if somehow Waukegan can  More

I have been living in north east waukegan for 12 years and I am excited by the recent surge of growth in the downtown area. Thanks to the Genesee theater, there are  More

Springfield is experiencing a rejeuvenation. Does the city have issues? Of course, what medium-sized city doesn't? During the past year, a new $1 billion MGM  More

This city has a bad rep that is unwarranted. I just bought a terrific little house in a quiet and friendly neighborhood. Everywhere I go in this town, people are  More

I just moved to Springfield almost a year now. I moved there because I know the housing stock there is plentiful. It's also very affordable. The most affordable place to  More