Yes. I don't care if it hurts my party, it's just the right thing for the sake of community representation.
Uh, no it's not. The new state would be an economic basket case and would have no money. Much like upstate NY downstate Illinois relies on metro Chicago to fund it.
Every state relies on its main population center to fund it, there's just an army of morons who insist of always separating ours for the sake of hypotheticals. Our state without all of Chicagoland is almost as big as yours with the Twin Cities.
...which is an economically vibrant region. So are many places in outstate Minnesota too.
And many of the economically vibrant places downstate wouldn't be in an independent state, let's see how well Champaign does if it's no longer an in state school for people from metro Chicago.
Also haven't you not lived in Illinois since you were four? I'm closer to being a North Dakotan than you are to an Illinoisan.
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