This Land Is Your Land
By Margaret Lyons in Miscellaneous on Jun 19, 2008 6:49PM
Illinois has the 10th-lowest percentage of federal-owned land of any state, with only 1.8 percent of state territory owned by the federal government. Compare that to 84.5 percent of Nevada or 69.1 percent of Alaska. Wow. The federal government controls about 30 percent of the country's total territory.
