@abc7chicago Illinois Governor JB Pritzker jokingly announced on Friday, February 7, that the name of Lake Michigan had been changed to Lake Illinois, poking fun at President Donald Trump’s Gulf of America. Pritzker went on to say that Illinois was annexing Green Bay, mocking the president’s interest in taking over Greenland. In video posted to X, Pritzker intoned with faux seriousness, “The world’s finest geographers, experts who study the Earth’s natural environment, have concluded a decades-long council and determined that a Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state.” “So today, I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect this momentous change,” he said. “In addition, the recent announcement that to protect the homeland, the United States will be purchasing Greenland … Illinois will now be annexing Green Bay to protect itself against enemies, foreign and domestic,” he added. Pritzker has been critical of Trump, and the footage comes just one day after the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago over immigration policies, according to local reports.
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