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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.
The risk to the public remains low, but farmworkers exposed to infected animals are at higher risk, health officials said. As of Wednesday, the virus had been confirmed in 51 dairy herds in nine states.
A record number of nearly 1.9 million of them will do so by car, according to AAA.
The extremely rare bugs were found this week in Beverly, Orland Park and Warrenville. One was donated to the Field Museum.