DYING Coal Mining Towns in RURAL ILLINOIS

See more of what the rural parts of Vermilion County, IL Here: (Link will be here once it's uploaded)
Danville Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BOMpKVgJPA&t=898s
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You need to come visit Vermillion County, Indiana. Im from rural Perrysville and we have a lot of history in the county and some of the same problems.

All the usual things that make these videos great is here. The drone shot in particular was spectacular. All these small towns are very carefully documented and discussed along with background regional history. The amount of information presented is incredible given the tiny size of these communities. You will see things more clearly because you end up learning so much thanks to the intense curiosity, video art and intelligence of Chris.

Camp Robert Drake lies just south of Oakwood and was a part of my Boy Scout experience back in the '60's. It's still a very active Scout camp, but its official address is Fairmount. Being nestled in along the Salt River and the strip-mined area (called the "Pollywogs") has made for interesting canoeing and hiking through the years!

I use to hang out in Danville during my short stay in Champaign, & to be honest I liked it the people there told me it was incorporated to be a retirement town which made sense considering how it looked at the time however me being a born & raised Chicago native I gotta outta there fast 😂😂 I still know people who live down there

11:37 Some of the only activity I saw was a squirrel crossing the road on an electric wire.

Well shux! I'll subscribe to that other channel. I lived in Paris, just south of Vermillion County and worked for EMS. Danville sure has gone to he-hockeystix, hadn't thought of the other towns except r/t Illinois Politics which suck. All those stats prove THAT.

WOW!!! Chris, congrats on that many subscribers for both channels. Very well deserved. I do go to the archives after viewing this channel. I love that you are doing my home state right now of Illinois.

Lived in Catlin most of my life the buildings by the post office and old bank were owned by somebody that I'll say was self serving not a public servant safe to walk through live in Danville now decaying city losing quaker oats was not good one bit it seemed like the beginning of the end was losing general motors

The governor is part of the little hat club and is straight up crime boss

12:00 does it really say -176,536 in that top right county???? What happened there????

Oddly enough, the town of Coal City is actually growing quite a bit.

IL leaders abandoned every town outside chicagoland area. It's sad, just bad politics and leadership…and a whole bunch of corruption.

Good areas for remote working pick up homes for under 80k. Don’t count them all out yet

This is what all communities that have fossil fuel as there main source of income will look like, this is your future… And the taxes are forcing people out of the state. This is not sustainable, the house of cards cannot last much longer, sad…

That's a pretty rundown looking town.