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FARGO, N.D., March 2 -- Out here on the wind-whipped prairies, North Dakota is accustomed to obscurity. Once, the state was even mistakenly omitted from an atlas of America.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 25 -- Except for one day a year, when cars race at breakneck speed for 500 miles around an oval track, this unpretentious Midwestern city is so unaccustomed to the national limelight that it mockingly calls itself \"Indy-a-no-place.\"

CHICAGO, Feb. 27 -- Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman, who rose to fame in Chicago by denouncing the strong-arm tactics of the old Democratic machine, now faces opposition from an organization of another sort: a street gang.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25 -- This is a place once famous for its punch-in-the-nose politics, where a prudent alderman donned a bulletproof vest at a raucous City Hall meeting in the 1980's and a skittish mayor-elect took his oath of office in the protective shadow of armed guards.

DEADWOOD, S.D. -- Kevin Costner became a hero among American Indians five years ago for his movie \"Dances With Wolves,\" a tribute to the Lakota Sioux culture before whites swarmed the Black Hills in the 1870's to snatch the land and search for gold.

CHICAGO, Feb. 14 -- The poetry of the rural Midwest sings of the prairies, abloom with wildflowers and tallgrasses, nourished by the ancient glaciers that flattened the land but also made it rich.

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., Jan. 23 -- Booms in the West invariably seem to spawn mythic symbols.

Americans are waiting for Republicans to take over Congress to see if they can do what they promise and control the bureaucracy that many see as bloated even though they may not agree with Newt Gingrich.

\"It really doesn't have very much to do with Wyoming,\" said R. Clifford Black, a spokesman for Amtrak. \"It has more to do with Seattle.\" [Sister Marie Raymond] said she hoped the new train service would make it easier for her to visit friends in the Midwest. \"As it is now, if you die and go to hell you've got to go through Denver first,\" she said. \"Now don't say I said that.\" \"With all the economic problems we've had, the lack of jobs and all, it's a good sign to get the train back,\" he said. \"In the last several years, even the people with blood going all the way back in Wyoming were starting to wonder if maybe we should all leave. But the real, true Wyoming people know that if we're strong, we won't fail.\"

\"We'll be having a conversation with a parent about a child's behavior problem, and somebody decides it would be interesting to listen in,\" said Robert Leonard, the School Superintendent. \"In three hours' time, that story has gone up and down the river. There's no way to keep it quiet.\" \"Now that we're connected to the outside world, I feel so alive,\" said Luella Bailey, a Starkey resident. \"To hear that ring, and know you can talk to somebody on the other end, it's just wonderful.\" \"Now that we're connected to the outside world, I feel so alive,\" said Luella Bailey, a resident of Starkey, Ore., population 30, where telephone service was introduced this year. \"To hear that ring, and know you can talk to somebody on the other end, it's just wonderful.\" (Barbara Reynolds for The New York Times)