Northwest suburban Cook County is home to some of the best drivers in Illinois, while Naperville has some of the worst.

That’s according to an analysis of self-reported data collected by insurance marketplace platform LendingTree.

“The state has pretty good drivers in general, but there are places people can do better,” said Rob Bhatt, an insurance analyst with North Carolina-based LendingTree.

Naperville was the only suburb in the bottom five of the analysis, reporting 16 driving-related incidents per 1,000 drivers, placing its drivers fourth worst in the state.

Decatur drivers were the worst in the state with 26.7 incidents per 1,000 drivers, according to the analysis. Bhatt said incidents were driving violations or at-fault crashes within the past three years hundreds of thousands o

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