[TheRightGuy]

Chicago is on the Great Lakes, as is Detroit, Cleveland, etc., and would be part of Lib USSA.

Chiago is ON the Great Lakes, but it drains into the Gulf Of Mexico ... not into the lakes. The flow of the Chicago River was reversed over 100 years ago.

[kosciusko51]

That’s right. I had forgotten about that. However, IIRC they do get their drinking water from Lake Michigan. And we could always fix that “environmental damage”.