What does "upstate" mean in the US?

I hear it in movies so the time. We're going upstate. I went upstate. Etc

I never hear downstate, or similar. Does it just mean going north?

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In Illinois you might hear "downstate" to refer to anything south of Champaign-Urbana
- Anything south of Kankakee, more like.

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