Central Eastern Illinois is a prime region for growing sweet corn which is used for both canning and the production of corn flakes. Working my way through the University of Illinois I took a job selling office machines and one of my customers, near Danville Illinois, was Laughoff Grain, who maintains huge silos full of dried sweet corn. More @Wikipedia
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