Making a map-style blowup section?

Hello!
I'm fairly new to Illustrator; I've been playing with it for a few days and I'm getting the hang of it, but I can't seem to figure one particular thing out. I'm working on a vector map and I'd like to be able to take a section of it and blow it up to the corner in typical map manner. I was able to accomplish what I was trying to do in Photoshop: http://i.imgur.com/qWz0A71.png but 1. it's pretty obvious where the non-vectored parts are, and 2. I'd like to keep the workflow for these as simple as possible (i.e. in a single program). I got part of the way there with the Crop pathfinder tool, but it only includes shapes and not paths in the cropped selection (so no roads or rivers). How would I be able to solve this? Thanks for your help!

Probably the simplest way would be to make a copy on a new layer of the part of the map that you want to enlarge.
Then use a clipping mask to define the visible area.

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Hello members,
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PS - Happy Holidays to you and your families. My Best, ~PM
PSS - Hi Peter ... I reviewed your site and this site, and Googled as well before posting.

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