An appeal for new reading material

Hello, bloggers. I need your help.

Somehow, the majority of the 158 blogs on my Google Reader subscription are (super fun) blogs written by {super fun} Southern and/or conservative women. I'm not exactly sure how that happened, seeing as how I am a midwestern moderate-liberal. Setting our differences aside, I still love reading their (your!) blogs and do so, lovingly, daily.

That being said...I'd love to find some good midwestern blogs. Extra points for those bloggers in Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Can you help? Do you read any great blogs that hail from the midwest? If so, please let me know. Lisa and I have been on the hunt, and both of us have come up empty.

Thanks!