Illinois is an offensive Indian-derived name. We need to change the name to either Madiganistan, or whatever the Algonquin Indian word is for “Corruption on the Prairie”.
Illinois is the way the early French explorers/missionaries wrote hilinawe, which simply means “man” in the applicable Indian tongue. I didn’t know there were any derogatory connotations there. “Corruption on the Prairie” might require about sixteen syllables in Algonquin — these supposedly benighted tribes apparently had very little problem with that and wouldn’t have a short word for it. (Now killing raids upon their Indian neighbors, that would be another story. But hey, all men have weaknesses.)