Can you share with listeners a little bit about the development of the canal and how important the development of the canal was to Chicago, please?

As I mentioned, the Illinois legislature gave powers for the Illinois and Michigan Canal to the first sod to be kind of dug in 1836.

And this canal, it becomes a kind of hub.

It allows Chicago to become a hub of industry, effectively, because this makes it so that Chicago can be connected to the West, but also kind of the South and across to New York eventually.

Lake Michigan is now kind of connected to the wheat fields and the kind of cattle ranches of Wisconsin and Iowa and all of the kind of surrounding big states.

And also, I mean, Illinois is also is an agricultural state.

If you go outside of Chicago, this becomes very obvious very quickly.

Is that true?