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As cicadas emerge, nature lovers travel thousands of miles to converge on Illinois

Mary Norkol, Dorothy Hernandez

For tourists, Illinois is the place to be for the historic cicada emergence. The 17-year brood in the state’s northern half and the 13-year brood in the southern part are set to converge near Springfield.