"Where else can you go where you can go fishing, hunting, rock climbing, and mountain biking, paddling, all within 45 minutes? When I talk to people about coming to Southern Illinois, do you want affordable homes, we have them. Do you want access to outdoor opportunities, we have them. Do you want a great small-town community where you go to the store and you see people, we have that. We also have the amenities of a lot of larger places with access to the interstate, with access to the university, so we have the best of both worlds."