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 ...

The move follows seven Illinois counties voting to explore secession in the November election. Iroquois, Calhoun, Clinton, Green, Jersey, Madison and Perry counties - all rural counties in ...

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.

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.