Question: Some forms of American English spoken in Illinois are from which American English dialect spoken in a geographic band reaching from Central New York westward along the Erie Canal?
Sentence (from "Inland Northern American English"): A geographic corridor that extends across a section of Illinois, reaching from Chicago into St. Louis, Missouri, has also been infiltrated by features of the Inland Northern accent, though not historically part of the Inland North dialect region.
Relevant evidence: No