Your biggest employers have moved their businesses to Cook County. And all your farmland was sold to bankrupt developers. A recipe for economic disaster? Not if you're Lake County -- that's because Lake County is on the way to being Illinois's #1 tourist Mecca. According to the Daily Herald ...Visitor spending in Lake County set a record in 2011 at $1.13 billion, according to figures released this week by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, office of tourism. The amount is nearly 7 percent higher than 2010. In travel spending, Lake County ranks behind Cook and DuPage counties, according to Visit Lake County formerly Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Lake County supports 9,970 tourism related jobs and about $24 million in tax was generated for local communities, according to the organization.Lake County, like Michigan and other Midwest epicenters of economic mass-destruction, is hoping to rebrand itself -- and cash in big as the newest must-see-before-you-kick-the-bucket tourist destination. But before Lake County can aspire to be the next Wisconsin Dells, it will have to start marketing its unique attractions. There are, by any conservative estimate, at least ten of these, in many of which your LakeCountyEye has personally taken the pleasure:
Record year for tourism in Lake County
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