Two Republican Illinois politicians say Chicago-style politics are dominating the state and they have a solution. State Reps. Bill Mitchell of Forsyth and Adam Brown of Decatur have proposed separating Cook County from Illinois and creating a 51st state.
Never happen. They'll never give up the Springfield boodle...
More important, they need the Downstaters to finance all the largesse Cook County has voted itself...
WAND-TV in Decatur reports the representatives held a presser Tuesday in Decatur to talk about their proposal.
Brown said Chicago is overshadowing the rest of the state. Mitchell says families in other parts of the state believe Chicago is "dictating its views."
They've proposed Cook County, which is the second most populous county in the U.S., to become one state and the other 101 counties in Illinois to become another.