Not so, we want to kick ourselves out of Illinois.” Ms. Merritt insists the divide is not partisan but focused on differences between urban and rural lifestyles. She says the counties that want to ...

A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

The “secessionist” counties in Illinois are in the southern ... those that do not will look more and more like rural Illinois. Michael J. Hicks is the director of the Center for Business ...

A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

And they contend the Democratic-led cities have so much clout in state government that rural, Republican voices get drowned out. In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been ...

"But those of us who live outside Cook County know we aren't and haven't been. We don't see a way to fix it." The cultural divide between rural Illinois and urban Chicago is wide. In the hope of ...

(The Center Square) – Opponents say Senate Bill 2217 will be detrimental to rural Illinoisans ... that over 100 state boards in Illinois were inactive. “Our county doesn’t have this ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY — Start-up medical service Southern Illinois Emergency Medical Service is expanding it reach into more rural counties in Southern Illinois. The service received a $756,200 loan ...