‘Sometimes splitting is a good thing’: An Illinois movement aims to be the 51st state – NPR

"Why leave? Power - in Illinois, to be far from Chicago is to be far from power. Democrats, many from the state's one big city, hold a supermajority in the legislature, much to the dismay of downstate conservatives. So (Loret) Newlin's task is to get a nonbinding question on the ballot asking, should we explore leaving Cook County to start a new state?"

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