Ted Slowik writes: 'The growing movement by dozens of downstate counties to break away from the rest of Illinois to form a new state shows how toxic politics has distorted our reality.'
The growing movement by dozens of Downstate counties to break away from the rest of Illinois to form a new state shows how toxic politics has distorted our reality.
I call malarkey. I believe people in Metropolis, Savanna and Mattoon have a lot more in common with folks in Park Forest, Dolton and Markham than they realize or are willing to admit. People are the same all over and many communities share similar economic challenges. Similarly, Congress appears unlikely to ever carve a new state out of the existing 50 when it has been too reluctant to even consider statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
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