… Carbondale and lots of places that you may not have heard from, heard of or from. But it's a big state, you know, 57,000 square miles of a state, and Most of the state is farmland and rural area, 75% of it. And there are lots of people who live across the state in those areas. And so, yeah, my job is to represent all of them and indeed, to lift up the economy of those places, too. (05:43–05:50)
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Asserts that 75% of Illinois is farmland and rural area.
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