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honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember "that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan".
Illinois has a pretty small coastline with it though. Michigan and Wisconsin completely dwarf Illinois's coast on the lake (and Michigan by a lot)
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went "and that's on Lake Michigan, so it's in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it's in Illinois".
How could you forget about the famous trash city of gary Indiana?
There's a Vault that's just bursting with employees of the Gary Dept of tourism. They're weird.
I name the lakes based on their names and not cities near them. Always have. Lake Superior. No big city. Lake Huron. Port Huron? They're massive bodies of water. Not ponds. They stand on their own.