Batter my heart, with a beer sauce

Something Awful is currently featuring a tour of the United States, whose official name is too crude for posting on a family blog. This week's entry is a tour of the Motherland, the Midwest, and includes a pretty-good summary of the Great City of Chicago and a dead-on, perceptive study of the Music Man's hometown, Gary, Indiana, which makes Flint look like Beverly Hills. A caveat: northeastern Indiana, that which hugs the lakeshore, is actually very nice and a desirable resort area. That being said, the rest is true.

SA: The Midwest