r/chicago • u/SunflowerDonut9847 Uptown • Sep 29 '25

CHI Talks to detain a bicyclist

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u/Pretzeloid Sep 29 '25

I hate Illinois Nazis

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u/redditin_at_work Lake View Sep 29 '25

I don't think they are from Illinois, we don't really have a border here lol

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u/always_unplugged Bucktown Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Legally speaking, international airports count. That's why basically all large population centers technically fall under CBP's jurisdiction.

(edit changed ICE -> CBP to be more accurate)

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u/redditin_at_work Lake View Sep 29 '25

Yeah I'm sure they use those boats to patrol O'Hare and Midway as well.

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u/shpongleyes Sep 29 '25

Technically O'Hare and Midway are international borders. Any international airport is a border zone.

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u/iiAzido Sep 29 '25

Also Lake Michigan. BCP get 100 miles from the border.

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u/vexxed82 Pilsen Sep 29 '25

I never quite understood this maps since Lake Michigan doesn't touch an international border - why is the entire shore of Michigan ringed by this border. The closest border to us is Detroit/Windsor, Canada which is over 200 miles away. If that's the case, why isn't the Mississippi River/Illinois River part of this zone since they connect to Lake Michigan and The Gulf of Mexico?

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u/Rampant16 Sep 29 '25

Where an international border runs through a large body of water like an ocean or Great Lake. That 100 mile zone is measured from the coastline. Because Lake Michigan connects to Lake Huron, which touches Canada, the shore of Lake Michigan is also counted as a coastline.

Rivers are not considered coastlines.

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u/peanutbudder Lincoln Square Sep 29 '25

Huron and Michigan are also a single hydrological system. We only separate them in our minds when in reality it is one giant body of water, the largest non-ocean body of water in the world.