New RN and NO job!!!

"There are jobs in central and southern IL."

I started out in Central IL, but didn't get paid enough to stay living there. The cost of living is too expensive! Plus, the area of nursing I am most interested in, there are only 2-3 hospitals in Southern IL that even have that area of nursing in their hospitals (St. Francis in Peoria-which I can not work at, Carle Hospital in Champaign/Urbana, St Johns in Springfield, and maybe Memorial in Springfield.). Most of these units are in the Chicago area, and none of them are hiring in their NICU's unless you have 2-5 years experience in NICU!

There really aren't that many positions available in IL. A lot of hospitals have positions posted, but they aren't really hiring (I've called them all after not getting any responses back from my applications).