2. Illinois is bordered to the south, west to Iowa and Minnesota, on the north by Lake Superior and the northern peninsula of the state of Michigan, and east by Lake Michigan.
3. The winters are long and cold and summers are short and mild. Temperatures are tempered by the influence of the Great Lakes.
14. Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and 23rd largest in the United States.
15. Oshkosh is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
16. Racine is a city located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River.
17. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American novelist. She is the second daughter of the marriage between Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake Quines.
18. Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. senator for the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957.