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= The Agricultural Core = Heritage Homes: One Neighborhood's Approach (BuildDirect) New Diet Burns Belly Fat (diet-awards.com)99 Hottest Babes Baring It All On Instagram (Daily Sanctuary)LOOK! Here's The Drunk Celebrity Hall Of Fame (Daily Sanctuary)7 Credit Cards You Should Not Ignore If You Have Excellent Credit (nextadvisor.com)7 Credit Cards You Should Not Ignore If You Have Excellent Credit (nextadvisor.com)99 Hottest Babes Baring It All (Daily Sanctuary)Trending Stories - Which Of These Celebrities Got More Wasted? (Daily Sanctuary)Heritage Homes: One Neighborhood's Approach (BuildDirect)New Fat Burner Takes GNC by Storm (Probioslim) The Agricultural Core includes Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the eastern edges of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as well as the western edges of New York, Pennsylvania, and the southwestern part of Ontario, Canada. This area overlaps with the Manufacturing Core. I would like for the focus of this group to be more on the rural areas of this region, and the Manufacturing Core to have its emphasis on the urban areas.

__//**Food**//__

__//**Kringle**//__ The Kringle, a thin pastry, is the official state pastry of Wisconsin. The Kringle was developed many years ago in Denmark that was then brought to Wisconsin by the Danish immigrants in the 1800's and has ever since been passed down from generation to generation. Kringle is hand-rolled from Danish pastry dough also known as Weinerbrod dough that has been rested overnight before shaping, filling, and baking. Once baked to golden perfection you can either serve the Kringle at room temperature topped with fresh fruits or warm it up again and serve warm. There are over 20 flavors that you can order a Kringle in such as: Cranberry Cheesecake Bavarian Creme Strawberry Cheesecake Sea Salt and Caramel Raspberry Cheesecake Cherry Cheesecake Cranberry Nut Pumpkin Praline Pecan Chocolate Chip Chocolate Silk Turtle Chocolate Eclair Pecan Almond Maple Walnut Macadamia Nut Walnut Strawberry Cherry Apple Cinnamon Apricot Raspberry Blueberry Key Lime Heath Cookies n Creme Cinnamon If you are interested in trying the official state pastry of Wisconsin here is a link to a website that sells and distributes Kringles! [|Kringle Website]

__//**Maid-Rite Sandwich**//__ The maid-rite sandwich is typically made and sold in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Utah, and Wisconsin. There is a maid-rite franchise that has locations in those states where these loose meat sandwiches are very popular and are a complete crowd pleaser. A maid-rite sandwich is loose ground beef cooked with specific seasonings (top secret stuff) on warm buns with some pickles. Usually no ketchup is served with a Maid-Rite sandwich because of all the secret seasonings that are cooked with the ground beef are all the sandwich needs to be a tasty meal. There is a maid-rite franchise that was created in 1926 and since then kept expanding and now there are third generation Maid-Rite family members still running restaurants. It is safe to say that if you ever travel to the Midwest you will come across a Mid-Rite <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; font-weight: bold !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; text-indent: 0px !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> and if not here's the website where you can look for locations, take a look at the menu, and learn more: [|Maid-Rite Corporation]

=__**3 TOP MOST VISITED PLACES IN CHICAGO!**__=

__**1.** 360 Chicago__
===//360 Chicago is something you defiantly want to look into when visiting Chicago. 360 was built in 1969 it is also the world's second largest building! The visitors are offered to experience TILT. TILT holds up to 8 visitors at a time, extends out and over the Magnificent Mile and Chicago famous skyline. Visitors can face downward from 1,000 ft up.//===

**2.Art Institute of Chicago.**
===//Since 1893 The Field Museum has had many visitors the Field Museum has attracted up to 2 million visitors annually. The museum is the largest natural history museum in the world. They have collections from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition to earliest fossils to past and current cultures not to mention over 275,000 books and journals etc to look forward to. The museum also obtains traveling to exhibitions. The museum has many entertaining facts to want to look into.//===

__**3.The Navy Pier**__
===//Since 1995 visitors can be entertained going to The Navy Pier. The Navy Pier has attracted more than 8.9 million visitors in 2013. It is Chicago's most important historical landmarks. The pier has many fun things to do such as boats and cruises, attractions and entertainment, fireworks and of course rides and attractions. There ferris wheel is 15 stories high! it is a must when visiting Chicago.//=== The National Historic Landmark (NHLs) in the U.S. state of Missouri represent Missouri's from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, through the American Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Age. There are 37 National Historic Landmarks in Missouri. One site in Missouri was once a National Historic Landmark but later had its designation withdrawn when it failed to meet the program's criteria for inclusion. The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city,St. Louis. If you are interested in finding more historical sites in missouri here is the link with the top 10 landmarks in Missouri : http://www.landmarkunitedstates.com/state/Missouri **Missouri State Capitol:**
 * Historical Sites in Missouri:**
 * Busch Stadium:**


 * Wainwright Building:**



=//**MISSOURI POPULATION IS 6.044 MILLION (2013)**//= //**AS OF 2011 MISSOURI RACE POPULATION IS..**//
 * **//84.0% WHITE AMERICAN//**
 * **//3.0% WHITE HISPANIC//**
 * **//3.7% HISPANIC OR LATINO//**
 * **//11.7% BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN//**
 * **//0.5% AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE//**
 * **//1.7% ASIAN AMERICAN//**
 * **//0.1% NATIVE AMERICAN//**
 * **//1.9% MULTIRACIAL AMERICAN//**
 * ** //0.1% OTHER RACE// **

//**NICKNAME- "THE SHOW ME STATE" CAME FROM A SPEECH FROM MISSOURI'S CONGRESSMAN WILLARD DUNCAN VINDIVER IN 1899.**// = =

=//__**Big City!**__//=

 Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. As a multicultural city that thrives on the harmony and diversity of its neighborhoods, Chicago today embodies the values of America's heartland-integrity, hard work and community and reflects the ideals in the social fabric of its 77 distinct neighborhoods.

Chicago is recognized across the United States as a very passionate sports town.

Chicago is a leader in reforming public schools, enhancing public safety and security initiatives, providing affordable housing in attractive and economically sound communities, ensuring accessibility for all and fostering, social, economic and environmental sustainability. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago was ideally situated to take advantage of the trading possibilities created by the nation’s westward expansion. The completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but the canal was soon rendered obsolete by railroads. Today, 50 percent of U.S. rail freight continues to pass through Chicago, even as the city has become the nation’s busiest aviation center, thanks to O’Hare and Midway International airports.

 [|Area] : 234 sq miles (606.1 km²

 [|Population] :  [|2.719 million (2013)]

= MOST FAMOUS ARTIST OF MISSOURI: THOMAS HART BENTON =

Born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889 into a family of prominent politician, committed to political republicanism and populism, Benton began his studies in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, where he studied under Frederick Oswald. His works stacked up to Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry which were also considered reginonalist painters-depicting the people and culture of the American Midwest, in particular native state Missouri. Thomas Hart Benton is one of America's most popular and heavily patronized modern artists during the decades leading up to World War II, his contribution to 20th Century American art is his thematic emphasis on images of ordinary people and common lore. Thomas was not just talented as a painter but was also skilled and self-taught in the harmonica and collected, cataloged, transcribed, and distributed popular music.

=Famous paintings by Thomas Bart Benton:=



=__**FILMS OF THE AGRICULTURAL CORE:**__=

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=__MUSIC OF THE AGRICULTURAL CORE:__=

Missouri Music-
===St Louis, Missouri was an important center for Jazz, Blues, Country, and Bluegrass music. Missouri played a major roll in the evolution of country music. The fiddling and driving bow came to be in Missouri. In the Ozarks, hillbilly music developed and from 1955-1961, Springfield was home to some of the first national country music programs of American Television. Missouri gave birth to some of the first country/ rock and roll artist of it's time like Chuck Berry and Porter Wagoner. In the 2000's Cicero's was a popular music center in which shows of upcoming and already well known artist showcased their music. Today Cicero's is known as Blueberry Hills Duck Room where Chuck Berry preformed monthly.===



===**Ohio is also known for its vibrant contribution to country, rock and roll, garage, and orchestra music. Ohio is home to four major symphony orchestras located in Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, and Dayton. RocknRoll Hall of Fame is located Cleveland, Ohio. Some notable musicians of Ohio are;**===







<- Uniform History The Green Bay Packers Play in and headquartered in [|Lambeau Field] in [|Green Bay, Wisconsin]. Founded in 1919 by [|Earl Lambeau] ,hence the name [|Lambeau Field] on which the team plays and [|George Whitney Calhoun]. The Green Bay Packers have won 13 league championships, more than any other team in the NFL, including nine [|NFL championships prior to the Super Bowl era] and four [|Super Bowl victories] —in 1967 Super Bowl I, 1968 [|Super Bowl II], 1997 [|Super Bowl XXXI]  and 2011 [|Super Bowl XLV]. The Packers have long-standing, bitter rivalries with their [|NFC North] formerly the NFC Central) opponents, the [|Chicago Bears], [|Minnesota Vikings] and the [|Detroit Lions] . The [|Bears–Packers rivalry] is one of the oldest rivalries in NFL history, dating back to 1921. The Packers are the only team to appear in the NFC title game twice in the last four years.
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