A report on Midwestern United States

Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River.

Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska

The Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Prairie in Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cumulus clouds hover above a yellowish prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, native lands to the Sioux.

c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition

Beaver hunting grounds, the basis of the fur trade

The state cessions that eventually allowed for the creation of the territories north and southwest of the River Ohio

Lake Michigan is shared by four Midwestern states: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa

An animation depicting when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789–1861

A map of various Underground Railroad routes

Minneapolis, Minnesota is on the Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska, is on the Missouri River

Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

German population density in the United States, 1870 census

A pastoral farm scene near Traverse City, Michigan, with a classic American red barn

Standing wheat in Kansas, part of America's Breadbasket

Soybean fields at Applethorpe Farm, north of Hallsville in Ross County, Ohio

The Chicago Board of Trade Building a National Historic Landmark

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan.

The first local meeting of the new Republican Party took place here in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.

Midwestern U.S. Senators by party for the 117th Congress

Midwestern U.S. Representatives by party for the 117th Congress

One of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau .

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Illinois

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Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois

Illinois in 1718, approximate modern state area highlighted, from Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L'Isle

The bell donated by King Louis XV in 1741 to the mission at Kaskaskia. It was later called the "Liberty Bell of the West", after it was rung to celebrate U.S. victory in the Revolution

In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. The southern portion of Illinois Territory was admitted as the state of Illinois, and the rest was joined to Michigan Territory.

[[Old State Capitol State Historic Site|
Old State Capitol]]: Abraham Lincoln and other area legislators were instrumental in moving the state capitol to centrally located Springfield in 1839.

Embarkation of Union troops from Cairo on January 10, 1862

Charles Mound, the highest natural point in Illinois at 1,235 feet above sea level, is located in the Driftless Area in the northwestern part of the state.

At 279 feet above sea level, the lowest elevation point in the state is located near Cairo and the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Density map displaying the population of Illinois

The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago at the heart of Chicago's financial center

Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Ogle County

Average annual wind power distribution for Illinois, 50 m height above ground (2009)

The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield

Vandalia State House State Historic Site in Vandalia

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

Magnolia Manor is a Victorian period historic house museum in Cairo.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield

A Railway Post Office preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union

Standard license plate introduced in 2017

Illinois license plate design used throughout the 1980s and 1990s, displaying the Land of Lincoln slogan that has been featured on the state's plates since 1954

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern United States.

Missouri

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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham

The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory.

Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864

Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894.

Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910

General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri.

African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938.

The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest

The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination.

The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield.

Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark expedition

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico.

Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station

The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City

The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus

Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis

The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District

Missouri has four major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL.

A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO.

The St. Louis Cardinals playing at Busch Stadium

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

Ohio

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Artists conception of the Fort Ancient SunWatch Indian Village in Dayton.

Iroquois conquests during the Beaver Wars (mid-1600s), which largely depopulated the upper and mid-Ohio River valley.

The Ohio Country indicating battle sites between American settlers and indigenous tribes, 1775–1794.

Rufus Putnam by James Sharples, Jr., 1797

Battle of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell.

The first Standard Oil refinery was opened in Cleveland by businessman John D. Rockefeller.

Iron being converted to steel for wartime efforts at Youngstown's Republic Steel in 1941.

Köppen climate types of Ohio, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Cincinnati's Procter & Gamble is one of Ohio's largest companies in terms of revenue.

The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, home to the Ohio General Assembly.

The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center holds the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Presidential election results by county for 2020

University Hall at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

Bosworth Hall at Oberlin College in northeast Ohio.

Springer Auditorium at the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Progressive Field, home to the Cleveland Guardians baseball team

Ohio Stadium in Columbus, home to the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, is the fifth largest stadium in the world.

Population growth by county in Ohio between the 2010 and 2020 censuses. -10 to -5 percent
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Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

Ohio River

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981 mi long river in the United States.

Steamboat Morning Star, a Louisville and Evansville mail packet, in 1858.

Built between 1847 and 1849, the Wheeling Suspension Bridge was the first bridge across the river and a crucial part of the National Road.

Cave-in-rock, view on the Ohio (circa 1832, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois): aquatint by Karl Bodmer from the book Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834

Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia which collapsed into the Ohio River on December 15, 1967, killing 46 people.

A barge heads east on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky.

The confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers is at Cairo, Illinois.

The Ohio River as seen from Fredonia, Indiana.

Natural-color satellite image of the Wabash-Ohio confluence.

Lawrenceburg, Indiana, is one of many towns that use the Ohio as a shipping avenue.

The Allegheny River, left, and Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the largest metropolitan area on the river.

Louisville, Kentucky, The deepest point of the Ohio River is a scour hole just below Cannelton locks and dam (river mile 720.7).

A barge hauls coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only artificial portion of the Ohio River.

Cincinnati skyline showing the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge to Covington, Kentucky.

Carl Perkins Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio with Ohio River and Scioto River tributary on right.

The Ohio River seen at Sciotoville, from the "Geography of Ohio," 1923

It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.

Southern United States

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Geographic and cultural region of the United States of America.

Field of yellow wildflowers in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Misty Bluff along the Buffalo River, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

Tidal wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland

The highlands of Grayson County in Southwest Virginia

1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, 1781

The siege of Yorktown prompted Great Britain's surrender in North America during the American Revolutionary War, 1781

Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, circa 1790)

Grove Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida. Known officially as the Call/Collins House at the Grove. Built circa 1840.

Horse race meeting at Jacksonville, Alabama, 1841

Historic Southern United States. The states in light red were considered "border states", and gave varying degrees of support to the Southern cause although they remained in the Union. This illustration depicts the original, trans-Allegheny borders of Virginia, and thus does not show West Virginia (which separated from Virginia in 1863) separately. Although members of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory (today part of Oklahoma) aligned themselves with the Confederacy, the region is not shaded because at the time it was a territory, not a state.

Atlanta's railroad roundhouse in ruins shortly after the end of the Civil War

An African American family, photo-graphed by O'Pierre Havens, circa 1868

A Home on the Mississippi, by Currier and Ives, 1871

Child laborers in Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913

An illustration from Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea, 1913

Photo of sharecropper family in Walker County, Alabama, circa 1937

Street musicians in Maynardville, Tennessee, photographed in 1935

Alabama plays Texas in American football for the 2010 BCS National Championship Game

Houston vs Texas face-off during the 2013 Lone Star Series in the American League West division of Major League Baseball

The start of the 2015 Daytona 500, the biggest race in NASCAR, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida

A rally against school integration in Little Rock, 1959.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bill Clinton, newly elected Governor of Arkansas speaking with Jimmy Carter in 1978. Carter and Clinton were both Southern Democrats and elected to the presidencies in 1976 and 1992.

Racial segregation was required by state laws in the South and other U.S. states until 1964.

It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.

Michigan

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Père Marquette and the Indians (1869) by Wilhelm Lamprecht

Map of British America showing the original boundaries of the Province of Quebec and its Quebec Act of 1774 post-annexation boundaries

Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), an unfinished painting of the American diplomatic negotiators of the Treaty of Paris which brought official conclusion to the Revolutionary War and gave possession of Michigan and other territory to the new United States

Detroit in the mid-twentieth century. At the time, the city was the fourth-largest U.S. metropolis by population, and held about one-third of the state's population.

The Michigan State Capitol in Lansing houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan.

The floor of the Michigan House of Representatives

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) speaking at a National Guard ceremony in 2019

Michigan Supreme Court at the Hall of Justice

Map of the Saint Lawrence River/Great Lakes Watershed in North America. Its drainage area includes the Great Lakes, the world's largest system of freshwater lakes. The basin covers nearly all of Michigan.

The Huron National Wildlife Refuge, one of the fifteen federal wildernesses in Michigan

Mackinac Island, an island and resort area at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac. More than 80% of the island is preserved as Mackinac Island State Park.

Sleeping Bear Dunes, along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan

The Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula

The Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, one of the 221 state game and wildlife areas in Michigan. It encompasses 7,483 acres of hunting, recreational, and protected wildlife and wetland areas at the mouth of the Huron River at Lake Erie, as well as smaller outlying areas within the Detroit River.

Köppen climate types of Michigan, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

The Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit is the second-oldest continuously operating Roman Catholic parish in the country.

The Ambassador Bridge, a suspension bridge that connects Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume.

Michigan is the center of the American automotive industry. The Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit is the world headquarter of General Motors.

Ford Dearborn Proving Ground (DPG) completed major reconstruction and renovations in 2006.

Distribution of Michigan's jobs as percentages of entire workforce

Michigan is the leading U.S. producer of tart cherries, blueberries, pickling cucumbers, navy beans and petunias.

The world headquarters of the Kellogg's Company in Battle Creek

Mackinac Island is well-known for cultural events and a wide variety of architectural styles, including the Victorian Grand Hotel

Holland, Michigan, is the home of the Tulip Time Festival, the largest tulip festival in the U.S.

Marquette, Michigan, is home to a vast snowmobile trail system.

Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe

The Bluewater Bridge, a twin-span bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario

US Highway 2 (US 2) runs along Lake Michigan from Naubinway to its eastern terminus at St. Ignace.

The Mackinac Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan

Aerial view of Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)

The Finlandia University in Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan

Cranbrook Schools, one of the leading college preparatory boarding schools in the country

Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor is the largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere, and the third-largest stadium in the world.

Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States.

Nebraska

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Nebraska in 1718, Guillaume de L'Isle map, with the approximate area of the future state highlighted

Homesteaders in central Nebraska in 1888

Köppen climate types of Nebraska, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Winter at Scotts Bluff National Monument

A cropduster in agrarian Nebraska, far west of Omaha

Football game at the University of Nebraska on September6, 2008

Nebraska is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

Kansas

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Samuel Seymour's 1819 illustration of a Kansa lodge and dance is the oldest drawing known to have been done in Kansas.

Köppen climate types of Kansas, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Reverend Charles Sheldon, Topeka resident and coiner of the phrase "What would Jesus do?"

Pittsburg State University's Veteran's Memorial

Farmland and the Great Plains in central Kansas

Cathedral of the Plains, a Roman Catholic Church Minor Basilica

Charles Curtis (R) was born near Topeka and served as a State Legislator, Congressman and Senator, before becoming Vice President (1929-33). He is the only Native American elected to the Executive Branch (he was born into the Kaw Nation).

The Plaza Cinema in Ottawa is the oldest operating movie theater in the world.

Allen Fieldhouse at University of Kansas in Lawrence

Tyler Field in Eck Stadium at Wichita State University in Wichita

Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States.

Wisconsin

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Wisconsin in 1718, Guillaume de L'Isle map, with the approximate state area highlighted

Jean Nicolet, depicted in a 1910 painting by Frank Rohrbeck, was probably the first European to explore Wisconsin. The mural is located in the Brown County Courthouse in Green Bay.

French-Canadian voyageur Joseph Roi built the Tank Cottage in Green Bay in 1776. Located in Heritage Hill State Historical Park, it is the oldest standing building from Wisconsin's early years and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, held the nation's first meeting of the Republican Party.

The Wisconsin 8th Volunteer Eagle Regiment with Old Abe

The Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn in Chase was built in 1903, as dairy farming spread across the state.

Wisconsin Governor Robert La Follette addresses an assembly, 1905

Wisconsin, from an altitude of 206 nautical miles (237 statute miles; 382 km) at 7:43:39 AM CDT on March 11, 2012 during Expedition 30 of the International Space Station.

Wisconsin is divided into five geographic regions.

The Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin is characterized by bluffs carved in sedimentary rock by water from melting Ice Age glaciers.

Timms Hill is the highest natural point in Wisconsin at 1951.5 ft; it is located in the Town of Hill, Price County.

The Wisconsin State Capitol is located on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, in the city of Madison.

The Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol

Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan was the 2012 Republican Party nominee for vice-president.

The 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 led to large protests around the state capitol building in Madison.

The U.S. Bank Center in downtown Milwaukee is home to the headquarters of Foley & Lardner, Robert W. Baird & Company, Sensient Technologies Corporation, and is the Milwaukee office for U.S. Bank, IBM, and CBRE.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green

Lambeau Field in Green Bay is home to the NFL's Packers.

American Family Field is the home stadium of Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers.

Wisconsin is a state in the upper Midwestern United States.

Chicago

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Most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most populous city in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles.

Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History

An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931)

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window.

Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of the Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

The Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores, as well as landmarks like the Chicago Water Tower.

Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side

Daley Plaza with Picasso statue, City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts.

When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world.

The University of Chicago, as seen from the Midway Plaisance

WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station.

The former Harpo Studios in West Loop, Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015.

Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, opened in the 1960s

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States.

Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station

Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus

With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the fifth-most populous city in North America.