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The Governor Of Illinois Is Trolling Donald Trump By Renaming The Great Lakes

I hereby formally annex Northern Illinois! It is now officially Wisconsin territory! /s

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The path to 200 years: Boundary maneuver kept northern Illinois from becoming part of Wisconsin

According to an article in the Illinois Periodicals Online project, the 1787 ordinance intended for the northern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to be aligned touching the southern tip of Lake Michigan. However, the map used by Congress mistakenly showed the southern shore of Lake Michigan to be about six miles north. And when Indiana became a state, its northern boundary was approved about 10 miles north of the originally intended boundary.

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Wisconsin became a territory in 1836 and for several years protested against the northern Illinois boundary, claiming the southern tip of the lake as the true boundary. In 1840, delegates in northern Illinois meeting in Rockford declared the property properly belonged to Wisconsin.

Original northern border of Illinois was south of Chicago and Lake Michigan

Chicago residents today might have had a Wisconsin zip code if the originally proposed northern boundary of Illinois had been approved. It was a straight line from the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan to just south of the Rock and Mississippi River confluence. University of Illinois soil scientist Ken Olson said that had the proposed northern border not been changed, the state of Illinois would have a much smaller population and footprint with the northern 51 miles of the Illinois Territory ceded to Wisconsin when it became a state in 1848.