He also drew a map of the Midwest that, as it turned out, was better than the one the actual mapmakers came up with. If Jefferson had gotten his way, we would now be living in Chicago, Assenisipia.

A second storm system is also expected to bring snow to large swaths of the southern Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. According to an AccuWeather map, the following states are expected to see snow ...

Some of these regions — the West Coast, Mountain States, Southwest and Northeast are pretty clearly defined — but two other regions, the South and the Midwest, are more nebulous.