In a recent article for the personal finance website Nerdwallet.com, Elmhurst College Professor of Business Gurram Gopal talks about why Illinois is a great place to start a business.

His “Expert Take” can be found at the end of Nerdwallet’s Best Places to Start a Business in Illinois feature, which analyzed 285 communities throughout the state and, based on each city’s business climate and economic health, developed a list of top places to start a business. The highest-ranking communities, Oak Brook and Itasca, both are in DuPage County, and nine out of the top 10 communities are suburbs of Chicago.

You can read the article here.