“As its name suggests, Forgottonia was a region of Illinois seemingly forgotten by the rest of the state. Lacking infrastructure funding, this western area of Illinois was isolated by the Illinois River. Federal bills that would have funded an interstate through the area, connecting Kansas City and Chicago, were defeated in 1968 and 1972. Eventually parts of Interstate 72 were built in the late 1980s, but the region still suffers from loss of business, poverty and populations leaving (including Carthage College relocating to Wisconsin).”