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?
Context: North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.  Because of their related histories and cultures and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary, and accent of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken dialects are often grouped together under a single category.  Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable in the two languages' written forms.  Canadian spellings are primarily based on British usage as a result of Canada's longer-standing connections with the United Kingdom.  Canadians are generally tolerant of both British and American spellings, with British spellings being favoured in more formal settings and in Canadian print media.  Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster, who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English.  Despite these differences, the dialects of both Canada and the United States are similar.  The United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution have had a large influence on Canadian English from its early roots. Chicano English, or Mexican American English, is a dialect of American English spoken primarily by Mexican Americans (sometimes known as Chicanos), particularly in the Southwestern United States, ranging from Texas to California but also apparent in Chicago.  Chicano English is sometimes mistakenly conflated with Spanglish, which is a grammatically simplified mixing of Spanish and English; however, Chicano English is a fully formed and native dialect of English, not a "learner English" or interlanguage.  It is even the native dialect of some speakers who know little to no Spanish. Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a large class of American English dialects, spoken by predominantly white Americans, best documented in the greater metropolitan areas of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, Western and Central New York, Northwestern New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Illinois, Northern Ohio, Eastern South Dakota, and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, plus much of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Eastern Nebraska, and even the Canadian region of Southern Ontario.  The North as a super-dialect region is considered, by the 2006 "Atlas of North American English", at its core, to consist of the dialects of the Inland North (around the Great Lakes region) and Southern New England. Charles Boberg is a researcher and educator in the field of sociolinguistics, specializing in language variation and change, dialectology, and North American English.  He studied at the University of Pennsylvania under seminal sociolinguist William Labov, and is one of the major contributors to the Atlas of North American English, along with Labov and Sharon Ash.  His ongoing research primarily uses acoustic phonetics to analyze differences in the sound patterns of English spoken in North America, and has led to a greater understanding of regional dialects, including those of Western American English, New England English, and Canadian English, often specifically as it's spoken in Montreal.  Boberg is an enthusiastic supporter of the uniqueness of Canadian English, and has been consulted on matters of national security because of his expertise with identifying regional accent and vocabulary patterns.  He is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill University. Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a national historic district located at Port Byron and Mentz in Cayuga County, New York.  The district includes two contributing buildings (the Erie House and the blacksmith shop / mule barn); three contributing engineering structures (Erie Canal Lock 52, culvert, and canal prism of the enlarged Erie Canal); and archaeological sites associated with the canal operations.  Lock 52 was constructed 1849-1853 as part of the Enlarged Erie Canal program.  It remained in operation until the rerouting of the canal under the New York State Barge Canal System in 1917.  The Erie House was built in 1894 and is a two story frame structure that housed a saloon and hotel. Army creole was a term used in Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff" to describe an English dialect spoken by military personnel.  The dialect relies upon extensive use of profane intensifiers like fuck to gain attention in confusing circumstances requiring prompt, decisive action.  Before 1980, basic training drill instructors, drill sergeants, military training instructors, and recruit division commanders used the dialect to increase the stress-levels of recruits, simultaneously emphasizing a recruit's subordinate status to the instructor, and increasing the probability of the recruit focusing on the instructions being provided in distracting situations.  Military personnel learning the dialect in training may use it to improve communication in stressful situations.  It may also become a preferred dialect for informal communication bonding individuals of shared military background. North-Central American English (also known as the Upper Midwestern or North Central dialect in the United States) is an American English dialect native to the Upper Midwestern United States, an area that somewhat overlaps with speakers of the separate Inland North dialect, centered more around the eastern Great Lakes region.  The North Central dialect, often popularly though stereotypically recognized as a Minnesota accent, most strongly stretches from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to eastern Montana, including the northern tip of Wisconsin, the northern half of Minnesota, some of northern South Dakota, and most of North Dakota; however, many speakers of the dialect are also found scattered throughout Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin (except for metropolitan Milwaukee), as well as in the northern half of Iowa. Inland Northern (American) English, also known in the United States as the Inland North or Great Lakes dialect, is an American English dialect spoken in a geographic band reaching from Central New York westward along the Erie Canal, through most of the U.S. Great Lakes region, to eastern Iowa.  The most advanced Inland Northern accents are spoken in the cities of Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; and Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, New York.  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. The official language of Illinois is English.  Nearly 80% of the population speak English natively, and most others speak it fluently as a second language.  The forms of American English spoken in Illinois range from Inland Northern near Chicago and the northern part of the state, to Midland and Southern dialects further downstate.  Illinois has speakers of many other languages, of which Spanish is by far the most widespread.  Illinois's indigenous languages disappeared when the Indian population was deported under the policy of Indian Removal. New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, is a regional dialect of American English spoken by many people in New York City and much of its surrounding metropolitan area.  Described by sociolinguist William Labov as the most recognizable dialect in North America, the dialect is known through its association in the media with many public figures and fictional characters.  Its features are most densely concentrated in New York City proper and its immediate suburbs (whose residents often commute to New York City), but they also extend somewhat to the wider metropolitan area and the New York City diaspora in other regions.
Answer: Inland Northern