to my north, there's a cornfield
to my south, there's a cornfield
to my east, there's a beanfield (oo, variety)
to my west, there's a cornfield
meth lab's are growing very popular as farmers leave tanks of anhydrous ammonia sitting unguarded in fields. prisons arent necessarily bad to have close by, the last thing a prisoner would do after escaping is hide out within a mile of where he was incarcerated.
on the other hand, the university of illinois here is pretty highly rated for computers/electronics engineering and related fields. i guess good things hide in corn fields too