Republican State Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Decatur, introduced a bill Tuesday urging Congress to "enact legislation dividing Illinois and Cook County into separate states."
The bill [HJR0052] argues that the state of Illinois is "functional to the extent that its people agree on politics, society, and economics." Because, according to the bill, the majority of Cook County residents "hold different and firmly seated views on these important questions" than residents of the state's other 101 counties and have roughly equivalent populations. They both should each "enjoy the chance to govern themselves with their firmly seated values," the bill's sponsors believe.
Mitchell's bill goes on to cite Maine's secession in 1819 from the state of Massachusetts after over forty years of being a "physically
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