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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordFebruary 10, 2025
the world's finest geographers, experts who study the Earth's natural environment, have concluded a decades long council and determined that a Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state.
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J.B. Pritzker
Democratic · Illinois
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Editor's note · Context

Pritzker humorously claims Lake Michigan should be renamed to honor Illinois.

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