…there’s a growing movement to split Illinois into two states. Republican state lawmaker Brad Halbrook recently got big applause at an Effingham, Ill., rally when he talked about a bill he reintroduced in February to do just that, reports the Washington Post, which takes a look at the movement that includes grass-roots groups with names like Illinois Separation and New Illinois. Supporters say Chicago has too much influence in Illinois politics; Halbrook went on Fox & Friends Monday to make that argument and call for a “new Illinois.”
Some supporters also insist it’s not just about politics: While Chicago has a lot of economic power, “one in four jobs [in the state] is related to agriculture, so there is another economic driver,” Halbrook says, noting that the rest of Illinois could hold its own economically. The co-founder of New Illinois adds that the issue isn’t a “red, blue, Republican and Democrat thing. It’s an urban versus rural thing.”
Do the same for SanFran, NYC, Seattle, etc. it makes sense that leftists pay for their own stupidity…
But then E and W Illinois will go to court fighting over who gets stuck with Chicago. lol
No.
Give it to Indiana.
Don’t need 2 more totalitarian/socialist Senators.
Or disband it – cut it up into independently autonomous sections.
Or do it like an Indian Reservation – something that exists outside the Republic. Maybe bring back the idea of the City-State without representation in the Senate?
Or nuke it from orbit – just to be sure …
izlamo delenda est …
Instead of a state’s secession, how about expulsion from the Union? Reduced to territorial status with an appointed governor, no legislature and one non-voting representative in Congress.
Humongous homes for irresponsible Federal Tit-Sucking Parasites that I don’t see getting any better with the type of “leaders” they are putting in place!
Just put a barbed wire fence around it and make it a prison. With the out of control crime rate they have it can be justified.
Oh and don’t slam it shut until the next democratic convention is gathered!
Trade it to Canadia – for a moose to be named later.
Yea I’m waiting to see Calexit….
Indiana doesn’t want it. I say we nuke it. 😉
No federal funding or representatives seated for areas that can’t prove they have honest elections. Don’t like it? GTFO