Illinois' poverty rate is steadily climbing. A report released by the Social Impact Research Center reveals the numbers have consistently gone up since 2010. Nearly 15-percent of the people in Illinois lived at or below the poverty line in 2013. That's about two-million people who had incomes of 24-thousand-dollars or less for a family of four. Montgomery, Morgan, Union, and Wayne counties made a warning list because of their negative conditions for poverty, unemployment, teen birth and high school graduation rates.
