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by AnimalMuppet 2083 days ago
Right, but news flash: It's not 1840 any more. Chicago isn't the frontier. Chicago and anywhere east of there is east.

... at least geographically. Culturally, those places are midwest, just like everywhere from just west of Pittsburgh to just east of Denver. (Culturally, Pittsburgh is at least partly east, and Denver is at least partly west.)
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rezeroed 2082 days ago
You're news-flashing me? I know what east and west are, hence the explanation for a name that currently makes no sense.
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AnimalMuppet 2082 days ago
Well, news-flashing whoever keeps using the name for places east of Chicago.

Related gripe: The University of Michigan's fight song calls them "the champions of the west". Once upon a time that sort of made sense, because they played in an athletic conference that had "west" in the name. But the name of the conference didn't make sense, because California already was a state.

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