Split Cook County from Illinois? A ballot question for some voters this fall [View all]

ILLINOIS – Should Cook County, home to Chicago and sprawling suburbs, break away from Illinois to form a new state? Voters in several Illinois counties could encounter a striking question, similarly phrased, on their ballots this fall.

The vote, however, is non-binding and doesn’t ensure such a change would happen. Instead, it serves as a declaration from voters toward the possibility of splitting Cook County from the rest of Illinois.


The Center Square reports that at least seven counties intend to vote on a ballot question around that possibility this November, including Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Iroquois, Jersey, Madison and Perry counties. Four of the seven counties (Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey and Madison) are within the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area.

The ballot question ahead for voters will read as such:

Shall the board of _______ County correspond with the boards of other counties of Illinois,
outside of Cook County, about the possibility of separating from Cook County to form a
new state and to seek admission to the Union as such, subject to the approval of the people?


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