Look man, I'll get sick if i drink from Lake Erie same as if i drank from the ocean. Works for me

No salt and no sharks, and all the beachy goodness.

If we're just gonna start counting whether or not our waterways have access to the ocean, then pretty much every Midwestern state counts by way of the Mississippi's drainage basin. 32 states have tributary rivers that find their way to the Mississippi, and then to the Gulf.

Incidentally, I love the detail in this map where the state of Mississippi no longer touches the Mississippi River, and the city of New Orleans is apparently divided across the states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas.

Michigan is stealing our BEACHES??!

TO WAR, I SAY! ⚔️

Yeah for MI this is an absolute win. Look at all that gained lakefront

Yeah, Chicago here. Fuck the ocean, give me back my lakeshore.

Edit: actually, if I'm still physically in Chicago, I guess it doesn't matter overly much whether it's Chicago, IL or Chicago, WI, though I think Illinois needs us more, from a political perspective.