Republican wants Cook County to secede from Illinois

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Yep, I'm certain that downstate Illinois will be a real bastion of economic opportunity, international investment, runaway job growth and enviable prosperity if it can only get Cook County of its back.  So, these guys, because they lost one governor's race by a whisker, want to get Chicago out of their state, and they want to do it by circulating a state referendum to be voted on by the very state citizens, in Cook and the surrounding largest counties, who outnumber them in the first place.  And here I thought South Dakota politicians came up with the most hairbrained schemes.