[Magdalen] Quiet

[ME Michaud]

Had a friend who grew up in Chicago.

She referred to (what I would call) a vacant lot as a "prairie."
-M

On Monday, April 3, 2017, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Chicago is also the eastern limit (by some maps) of the
> "Prairie Wedge,", that strip of Southern Wisconsin and
> Northern Illinois that was kept open with grassland and
> scattered Bur Oaks, probably by Native American periodic
> burning because the game was attracted to grasslands.
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