You’re killing me man we’re supposed to fight over this. Then I back off after calling out Ohio & Indiana for using their weight as states against a territory. If Michigan got Toledo back Wisconsin would start making all kinds of noises about the western UP being theirs & I wouldn’t get to gloat about how beautiful & mineral rich it is. No bueno.
In all seriousness I had family in the Toledo area & downtown was impressive if dead back then while the neighborhoods next to University of Toledo on the way to its cool zoo were nice. My sister lives in Valparaiso Indiana quick jaunt to Indiana Dunes and Chicago transit.
If the levels of phosphorus & nitrogen could get back to 80’s-90’s levels Toledo would be a sportsman’s paradise. An attractive waterfront working and recreational wouldn’t bring Toledo into the race of the 3 C’s but it has a great downtown to build out from.
Lake Erie was blue back in the 80’s & 90’s when it was the comeback lake, the poster child for the clean water act. There is this internationally award winning documentary called
The Erie Situation really delves into the issue. The dominance of the agriculture lobby in the Ohio Legislature has allowed a proliferation of “smaller” concentrated animal feed lots off setting the work being done by small local farmers switching to best organic practices.