Business Insider published an article yesterday, “This School In Rural Illinois Has Produced Some Of The Most Amazing Visionaries In Tech”, which features some incredible University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduates. Marc Andressen (Netscape), Max Levchin (PayPal), Steve Chen and Jawed Karim (YouTube), and plenty of others are mentioned in the list.
Though, Business Insider — “rural” Illinois? Eh, perhaps. “Small college town”? C’mon now.
Check out the article linked above.