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  2. Horseshoe Lake (Madison County, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Horseshoe Lake, a National Natural Landmark, is located in the American Bottom of Illinois within the greater St. Louis metropolitan area, is 2,400 acres (10 km 2) in size, and is the second-largest natural lake in Illinois after Lake Michigan. An oxbow lake which is a remnant of a Mississippi River meander, the lake's elevation is 403 feet ...

  3. Horseshoe Lake State Park - Wikipedia

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    Horseshoe Lake State Park. /  38.68556°N 90.09417°W  / 38.68556; -90.09417. Horseshoe Lake State Park is an Illinois state park in Madison County, Illinois, United States. It is approximately 2,960 acres (1,198 ha) and surrounds a large horseshoe-shaped lake called Horseshoe Lake. Horseshoe Lake is the second largest natural lake in ...

  4. List of cities on the Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    Detroit Skyline at Dusk A view of Buffalo, New York, taken from Outer Harbor Niagara Falls, New York from Skylon Tower Aerial view of Ashtabula, Ohio Toledo, Ohio skyline The Erie Skyline on Lake Erie The Chicago Skyline on Lake Michigan Milwaukee from the harbor River waterfront in Manistee, Michigan Aerial view of St. Joseph, Michigan The city's Financial District in Downtown Toronto at night.

  5. Illinois and Michigan Canal - Wikipedia

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    January 29, 1964 [ 3] The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. In Illinois, it ran 96 miles (154 km) from the Chicago River in Bridgeport, Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle - Peru. The canal crossed the Chicago Portage, and helped establish Chicago as the transportation ...

  6. WE Fest - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .wefest .com. WE Fest is a three-day country music festival that has been held each year on the first weekend in August at the Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, United States. WE Fest is one of the largest country music festivals by attendance in the United States. In 2016, over 150,000 attended the three day event. [1]

  7. Inland Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Inland Northern ( American) English, [ 1 ] also known in American linguistics as the Inland North or Great Lakes dialect, [ 2 ] is an American English dialect spoken primarily by White Americans in a geographic band reaching from the major urban areas ...

  8. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac - Wikipedia

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    Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac ( / ˈkædɪlæk /, French: [kadijak]; March 5, 1658 – October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a ...

  9. Chain O'Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...