Kentucky grows tobacco, corn, soybeans, maybe wheat
In Illinois it is mostly corn and soybeans. Illinois finishes #1 in most years for total soybean production and #2 in total corn production.
Do you mean naturally? I have no idea.
But so far as gardens go: in what part of Illinois are you talking? I live in Springfield, which is on the border of the USDA's zones 5a and 5b, and I've had...