More than 103.5 million tourists from around the U.S. visited Illinois last year. The state Wednesday released domestic visitor statistics for 2013, which it says rose 4.5 percent. It’s the third year in a row that the state has set a domestic tourism record. Data also show the state collected more than $235 million in hotel-motel taxes last year. That’s a 7.2 percent increase over 2012. Data on international visitors to Illinois is to be released later this year.
