But as that political streak again gets put to the test in the high-stakes 2022 gubernatorial campaign, Democrats are losing a battle for counties across Illinois, surrendering vast sections of ...

Edgar and Clark County are two of 33 in Illinois where voters approved the non-binding referendum for “separating from the city of Chicago to form a new state and seek admission as such subject ...

”Rural Illinois counties align more with Indiana’s policies as far as political and cultural issues.” Call IndyStar reporter John Tuohy at 317-444-6418. Email at john.tuohy@indystar.com and ...

Over 30 Illinois counties voted to leave the state because some voters said state laws favor Chicago residents.

As FiveThirtyEight has discussed, the political and cultural divide between the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois is stark. ... Mr. Romney will be in good shape in Illinois. The Collar Counties.

The bill isn't meant to "stir up trouble with Illinois," Huston said, calling it a "serious" proposal. Sign up for our politics newsletter. The move follows seven Illinois counties voting to ...

Illinois residents wanting to separate their communities from Chicago and Cook County is nothing new in the political world, but three counties took things one step further during the midterm ...

Those counties, now 33 in total, have voted to leave the state of Illinois. The language in the referenda involved the counties splitting off to create a new, 51st state—not joining Indiana.

All historical, county-level, voting statistics are from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab’s County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2020 database, as compiled in the Harvard Dataverse, V13.