Which City Should have its own Illinois Board

[karlsch]

I did some counting.

The first page of the Illinois forum contains 30 threads.

The two most popular answers for this poll are Rockford and Springfield.

If you had a separate forum for Rockford, the 30th thread (the last thread on the first page) on the forum would be from June 6, 2007:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/illin...-buy-home.html

To get 30 threads for Springfield, you would have to go back much farther than this, probably to the year 2006. (I got bored and gave up counting).

I don't think we need separate forums for any of the cities mentioned in the poll.

[aragx6]

I haven't been a mod that long, so i can't say for sure what the thinking is, but in my mind karlsch hit the nail on the head. None of the proposed forums would generate sufficient traffic to be worthwhile.

Imagine if there were no Chicago or Chicago suburbs subforum. If you wanted to find info about Cairo or Springfield or Belleville you wouldn't be able to because the board would be all mucked up with Chicago threads.

Are there really any other Illinois cities that get so much traffic about them as to choke out other threads? I don't think so.

[Havasu]

None of the cities need a board alot of the posts get buried as time goes on

[CellarBelle]

I'm still a big fan of a Metroeast Board - you know, the whole St. Louis Illinois suburb side. A lot of us end up posting on the Mo/StL forum, and it would be nice to have a spot over here. You could include Alton, Godfrey, Wood River, Bethalto, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon Collinsville, Fairview Heights, O'Fallon, Belleville, Swansea, Granite City, Highland... and so on. Not trying to leave anyone out, just rattling off cities that come to mind.

[Drover]

Yeah, it would be nice if it were possible for the St. Louis Metro forum to show up as a subforum in Illinois and Missouri, or to have the Chicago Suburbs forum show up as a subforum in Indiana and Illinois... but I don't think it's technically feasible with vBulletin -- a subforum has to be one or the other. It's something they (vBulletin) might want to look into.

[BUalumni]

As of now, I do not believe that Illinois needs another board. If anything were to be made, it should possibly be a "mid-sized city" board, since at times, and in waves, the bigger Illinois cities tend to dominate the rest of the Illinois forum. But it isn't as if this is the usual, or that it happens as much to warrant an entire forum all to themselves. If that particular style of forum was created, the Illinois board would sit pretty empty. Creating a suburban forum, that was seperate from the rest of the board was the best thing that C-D did for general Illinois questions.

[supernova9]

To me, central IL is north of Springfield and south of Kankakee.

Peoria, Champaign, Bloomington, Springfield, and Quad Cities could all use their own boards. There's a lot of IL left over to be covered on the main board. My $.02. :-)