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r/illinoisNSFW

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

339.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 140.1K upvotes, which works out to 412 per 1,000 members.

412peak upvotes per 1,000 members
339.7Kmembers
140.1Kbest post
13.6Kmost comments
716posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

38% 20% 19% 10% 8%
Link 38% Video 20% Image 19% Text 10% Question 8% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Illinois News 138 Illinois Politics 103 Question 88 ICE Posts 77 US Politics 37 Illinois Facts 35 Trip Planning & Tourist Help/ Guidance 22 Chicago news & issues 17 Pritzker Posting 16 I Hate Illinois Nazis 15

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I don't usually do fanart, but I felt this kid deserved it

↑ 140.1K 💬 3K image 2026

A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanishe…

↑ 128.9K 💬 8.2K image 2025

Wow❤️

↑ 122.9K 💬 3.3K video 2025

Tom Morello knows what's up

↑ 122.8K 💬 4.9K image 2025

People carried a large copy of the US Constitution as they march through downtown Chicago during the No Kings protests.

↑ 116.3K 💬 1.6K video 2025

Chicago residents are now following ICE vehicles, honking horns and shouting warnings to alert immigrants before raids begin.

↑ 110.6K 💬 438 video 2025

A statement from a resident living in Cicero.

↑ 108.4K 💬 2.4K image 2025

Insane turnout, I’m proud to be in this state for the summer.

↑ 105.6K 💬 2.2K video 2025

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up w…

↑ 94.1K 💬 2.4K video 2025

JB Pritzker just went nuclear on Trump: “Donald Trump and his bootlickers have torn down the Department of Education from the inside. Books are being…

↑ 93K 💬 3K video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/illinois, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/illinois have?
r/illinois has about 339.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 716 of its posts; the biggest reached 140.1K upvotes, which is 412 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/illinois?
"I don't usually do fanart, but I felt this kid deserved it" reached 140.1K upvotes and 3K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/illinois.
What subreddits are similar to r/illinois?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/illinois?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are link posts and 20% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/illinois?
Across 716 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (39.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 18:00 UTC (38.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (34.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/illinois?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/illinois has 68.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 204 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/illinois, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.