“It is my opinion that non-home-rule counties… do not have the authority to secede from the state of Illinois and join another state. Accordingly, any referendum on the issue of county ...

“It is my opinion that non-home-rule counties… do not have the authority to secede from the state of Illinois and join another state. Accordingly, any referendum on the issue of county ...

Iroquois County’s vote was some 72%, and Calhoun County’s near 76%. Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston says the Illinois counties would be more than welcome to come on over. On Jan. 14 the ...

Meanwhile, some have argued that no state can secede on its own by law, making secession ... by the Cook County-dominated legislature." Gina Merritt, chair of New Illinois, has also argued that ...

Recent pushes for secession have taken the form of other legislative proposals, as was exemplified in 2011 when Illinois State Rep. Bill Mitchell (R-I.L.) introduced a joint house resolution urging ...

In total, 33 counties in more southern, rural parts of Illinois have expressed interest in secession due to dissatisfaction with the liberal state governments and allocation of resources between ...

Indiana has looked at adding 33 counties from Illinois that signaled they want to leave the state - which could lead to whole new maps of the ... separating from Cook County to form a new state ...

The attorney general of Illinois, Kwame Raoul (D), says the counties considering secession have no legal standing for it. “Nothing in Article VII, section 2(a), addresses the concept of county ...