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Downtown Chicago sits at roughly 41.8°N. That would be closer to 40°N than

it is to 50°N.

If you start at the "island" formerly known as Meigs Field and proceed 'Northerly'

to 50°N, you wind up about 36 miles northwest of Geraldton, Ontario, in Canada.

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