The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prairie State
Prairie State \Prai"rie State\ Illinois; -- a nickname.
Usage examples of "prairie state".
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her urse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywoodor the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.
On the Prairie State, in the long bull sessions at night, them had been so much talk of the kind of wife one wanted!
I had not been long in the Prairie State but I'd already assisted a customer in securing a rare first edition of a C.