The Midwest is a region of the United States of America known as “Americas Heartland”, which refers to its primary role in the nation’s manufacturing and farming sectors as well as its patchwork of big commercial cities and small towns that, in combination, are considered as the broadest representation of American culture. The American Midwest was the home of more than a quarter of the U.S Presidents as well as the birth place of the inventors and entrepreneurs of most of the technology that fuels the worlds economy such as airplanes, cars, electric lightning, the transistor, petroleum, and steel production. The Midwest is also home to abundant nature including massive great lakes and the vast Northwoods which cover northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan and spill over into Canada making the far end of the upper Midwest very different in character to the more urbanized, agricultural and industrialized lower Midwest. The Midwest contains many large cities, the largest being Chicago.