If you are in Illinois, there are certain things you should try and avoid doing or saying. Here are the top 10.

  1. Potholes

Michael Gil/Flickr Chicago must have a Guinness record for most in the world, I swear.

  1. Traffic

Steven Vance/Flickr To some extent, you can avoid it with public transportation, but that’s not much better sometimes.

  1. Snow

Andrew Seaman/Flickr Not exactly avoidable, but it sucks.

  1. Construction

Steven Vance/Flickr What are they working on?

  1. Wearing a Packers jersey

elvert barnes/Flickr You will definitely hear some comments.

  1. Deer

brokinhrt2/Flickr Obviously these aren’t a problem in Chicago, but they are everywhere else.

  1. Festivals with 500,000 spectators

Ron Cogswell/Flickr Unless you like that sort of thing…

  1. Downtown shopping on December 23

Harry Pujols/Flickr Just don’t.

  1. Saying anyone here has an accent

kevin dooley/Flickr You guys have da accent, okay?

  1. Insulting Illinois

infowidget/Flickr Only natives can comment on the crime, corruption and other drama that comes with living here!

What else should one avoid in Illinois?

Michael Gil/Flickr

Chicago must have a Guinness record for most in the world, I swear.

Steven Vance/Flickr

To some extent, you can avoid it with public transportation, but that’s not much better sometimes.

Andrew Seaman/Flickr

Not exactly avoidable, but it sucks.

What are they working on?

elvert barnes/Flickr

You will definitely hear some comments.

brokinhrt2/Flickr

Obviously these aren’t a problem in Chicago, but they are everywhere else.

Ron Cogswell/Flickr

Unless you like that sort of thing…

Harry Pujols/Flickr

Just don’t.

kevin dooley/Flickr

You guys have da accent, okay?

infowidget/Flickr

Only natives can comment on the crime, corruption and other drama that comes with living here!

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