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| - Nearly everything in Illinois used to revolve around Chicago, the largest and most lawless urban wasteland of the Great Lakes megasprawls. At the state's northeastern corner, on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago's blighted a skyline used to rival any city's. Now, it's a tall, standing reminder of what a ready-made housing project of millions of people looks like. It runs the gamut from once-top-rated museums and sports stadia that are now nothing more than armed camps full of refugees and anti-magic militants, restaurants and cafés that now sit abandoned or condemned (some of which have been converted to chop shops, smuggler dens, and BTL houses ... some might even serve as soup kitchens for the poor, while some are nothing more than sives and nests for what are Free Insect Spirits), an
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| - Nearly everything in Illinois used to revolve around Chicago, the largest and most lawless urban wasteland of the Great Lakes megasprawls. At the state's northeastern corner, on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago's blighted a skyline used to rival any city's. Now, it's a tall, standing reminder of what a ready-made housing project of millions of people looks like. It runs the gamut from once-top-rated museums and sports stadia that are now nothing more than armed camps full of refugees and anti-magic militants, restaurants and cafés that now sit abandoned or condemned (some of which have been converted to chop shops, smuggler dens, and BTL houses ... some might even serve as soup kitchens for the poor, while some are nothing more than sives and nests for what are Free Insect Spirits), and innumerable bars and nightclubs that still pay homage to the city's strong jazz and blues heritage. Seventy-five percent of the state's population live within near the Chicago Containment Zone Sprawl, which controls the bulk of the state economy in the form of relief aid and search efforts – Illinois is the third largest agricultural producer in the UCAS, most of which is still provided to State and Corporate relief efforts in Chicago. Every week, anti-BTL, pro-family groups stage protests near the old kill-zones surrounding the old Containment Zone walls, and every time they turn violent. The sole exception to the endless flat prairies elsewhere is far to the south, where the forested Shawnee Hills rise between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The Shawnee Hills have been sealed off since the passing of Halley's Comet due to a large shedim outbreak from the Indian burial mounds and the Awakened plant and animal life that can be dangerous to unsuspecting tourists.
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