You're not in the southwest part of the state. Southwest is like, Platteville. Of course, to me, just like anything south of Kankakee is downstate Illinois, anything north of where I-94 links Madison and Milwaukee is Up North. Unless I'm just being presumptuous and you are not speaking from the La Crosse-Eau Claire environs today?
I live about an hour to the south of LaCrosse, 3 below Eau Claire. That would be a little over an hour south of I-94.
I used to live in La Crosse, Madison, and Baltimore at diferent times but I'm back where I've lived most of my life...southwest Wisco.