Illinois.com, Inc. Announces Relaunch of Web Site

Illinois.com, Inc. announces official relaunch of the Illinois.com Web site.

CHICAGO (PRWEB) November 13, 2006 -- Illinois.com, Inc., the premier search engine for the State of Illinois, is pleased to announce the official relaunch of the Illinois.com Web site.

While maintaining the same pertinent statewide information, version 2.0 of the Illinois.com Web site offers users increased functionality, usability and a greatly enhanced user experience. Now a true informational gateway, Illinois.com has added extensive information about every city, town, landmark, restaurant, park, major ticketed event and school within the state.

The new site amounts to tens of thousands of pages of content designed to educate those looking to relocate to Illinois, those visiting the state for either business or leisure and current Illinois residents.

In addition to the new content, Illinois.com visitors will be able to book a guaranteed lowest-price hotel room at one of the thousands of hotels throughout that state, buy tickets for concerts and sporting events, search real estate opportunities via the statewide MLS and gain access to real-time apartment rental availability.

Illinois.com is committed to using cutting-edge technology to rank the site at the apex among the most advanced geographical domains on the Web. Visitors to Illinois.com will now find an innovative "distance engine" that allows for mapping and distance tracking from any state focal point to another by the nearest 1/100th of a mile.

Looking for all schools and museums within 15 miles of zip code 60615? Illinois.com will pull together an aggregate list of museums, nearby hotels, restaurants and local events in seconds. This eliminates the need to visit multiple Web sites to gather similar information. In addition, planned future technology will enable community-based publishing and blogging for every city and town.

Since its original launch in the spring of 2005, Illinois.com has seen consistent monthly visitor and page-view growth. This latest version of the Web site is sure to dramatically increase traffic. The new site has already garnered support from high-profile local entities such as the Illinois Bureau of Tourism.

After a successful advertising campaign at the onset of the launch, Illinois.com looks forward to continuing the relationship through 2007.

"As natives and residents of Illinois, we are proud to bring the state a Web site worthy of its name," said Illinois.com director of business development Brad Spirrison. "Illinois.com is the definitive online resource for the state's 12 million inhabitants and several million tourists."

About Illinois.com

As the fourth-largest economic power in the United States, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and home to the university system that created the Web browser, Illinois needed a Web site to match its vibrancy and vision. Illinois.com was created with the objective of growing the international presence and brand of the State of Illinois and providing a full range of information and services for those who visit, are relocating to or live in Illinois. Illinois.com was launched in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago. For more information, please visit http://www.illinois.com.

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