Northern Illinois 17 Year Cicadas 2024. Brood xiii, or the northern illinois brood, will emerge in the northern half of the state. The northern illinois brood of cicadas have been burrowed in kankakee sands' sandy soils for 17 years.

Cicadas emerging in northfield, illinois, captured on may 19, 2024. Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence in the united states, the only state that will experience cicadas nearly everywhere and see two adjacent broods — brood xix, or.