According to the FBI there were no States with a higher violent crime rate than Alaska in 2015.  It's nothing new, it was 2011 when Alaska took the prize for #1 most violent crime rate. In the 5 years between 2011 and 2015 Alaska has held that #1 most violent crime rate in 4 of the years, slipping to #3 in 2012. Alaska was #2 in 2010.

In the 1960s Illinois had the #1 violent crime rate in 6 of the years, #2 in 1965, #3 in 1967 and #6 in 1968 and 1969.

You've got this thing bass ackward. Illinois is trying to avoid having Alaska's crime rate, not vice versa.

You might want to consider the fact that the Illinois population is 17.415 times higher than the population of Alaska.