Statewide, at least 2,000 people have been injured by fireworks over the last decade, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. That includes a record number of 349 people hurt by fireworks in 2017, which followed the 307 hurt in 2016. Both totals were way up from an average of about 280 people in the five years prior, though officials note that the data collection can be haphazard.