We live in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way and the Mound Builders, who lived in this area, believed Racine was the gate into heaven through a portal located in Orion's nebula. They called this portal the eye-in-hand constellation.

Southern Wisconsin is the closest place on earth to that portal. Here is an academic source explaining that the galactic-center area of the Milky Way glides just over the horizon in southern Wisconsin and the travel direction of animal-shaped burial mounds, which are unique to this region, leads the observer towards the Milky Way’s “rise-point” (first-glance visibility after astronomic darkness).