Here’s a novel solution for when Illinois goes bankrupt, don’t let them reorganize their debt. Force them to break the state up and let its neighbors have a chunk.
Wisconsin would get the Cubs, the Bears and could rename Chicago, South Milwaukee. Indiana would get Bloomington, and Kentucky would get the South. Missouri could lay claim to East St. Louis and Springfield, while Iowa could have all the quad cities plus John Deere.
Or maybe we should turn it into a federal toxic waste site for failed political philosophies.
Or just dig a giant hole and make another Great Lake.
That is a good idea. Once that happens Jefferson could break away from California and we would still have 50 states. We wouldn’t have to buy new flags and I could move from Washington to Jefferson.
NO THANK YOU !!!
Chicago is a corrupt shithole !!!
Wisconsin doesn’t want it !!!
Great-idea! How about adding California it needs busted up too!
I think Chicago should be ceded to the EU and become a suburb of Brussels.
If the various states have to take the Illinois people too, that would be a deal-breaker.
If Indiana got Bloomington, ILL, there would then be 2 Bloomington’s in Indiana.
Illinois the third most corrupt state in the US.
They would be first, but they just count the corruption they’ve found.
Chicago has become a shooting gallery and a hub for organized crime, gangs, illegal immigrants and refugees.
Chicago …. Sorry Frank, NOT my kind of town.
Congratulations Wisconsin! You just added 4 million more welfare recipients!
Trade Illinois to Canada. Let Chicago be Quebec’s new problem. They can require all the Dindunuffins to learn French.
In exchange we can have Nova Scotia. Or the Canadian West Coast, a continuous line from Washington to Alaska.
We can throw Detroit and Dearbornistan in for good measure.
Art of the deal. 😀
No state would want Chicago.
Can DJT do this with an executive order?🇺🇸
Let Puerto Rico have them
@joe6pack: Although Californians have recently co-opted the idea of the State of Jefferson, it was conceived in Oregon:
“In October 1941, the mayor of Port Orford, Oregon, Gilbert Gable, said that the Oregon counties of Curry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath should join with the California counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, and Modoc to form a new state, later named Jefferson.”
I live in this hell hole and John Kass maybe on to something. We’ve been wounded by lack of work – IL doesn’t pay bills so no reasonable contractor will engage the state. Leave Rahmonia/Chitcago/Crook County and Madganistan/Sringfield as islands in a sea of despair. I live close enough to the Wisconsin border to be fully assimilated. Cheese curds all around!
Tony, no matter whose idea it is, I endorse it. I’ve thought a good country could be made out of NorCal, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Alaska. In fact even at my age I would join that country’s army. We would have to figure out something to do with Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver.
Just send all the registered Democrats in the State to Venezuela.
Actually, we should do this for all of the States, DC, and Puerto Rico, too.
They can live in the shitty country, filled with brown people that don’t speak English, they obviously want. We get to not live in a shitty country filled with brown people that don’t speak English, like we want.
Win-win.
There might not be any money to pay the bills, but they sure have it to buy votes.
The number of congressional district in Illinois has gone down from 26 in 1950 to 24 in 1973, 24 to 22 in 1983, 22 to 19 in 1993, 19 to 18 in 2013.
Corruption, state, corporate, business, sales and property Taxes, driving businesses out of Illinois, liberal workers comp laws, Government indebtedness and the elected elite have driven more people out of Illinois each year. It will get worse, wait until the next census.
I left the best part of Illinois (Southern IL) 5 years ago just because Chicago controls the state, writes all the legislation, controls the corruption, continually raises taxes and it won’t get better.
Maybe Wisconsin could be persuaded to take Chicago’s gangs and corruption, but expecting us to take the Bears is just too much. No deal.
Seems if Illinois isn’t attractive to its inhabitants (Illinois has lost thousands of citizens), why would it be attractive to well run states? It won’t be.
Dome It !
Make it the ” National Museum Of the Un-Natural “