One type of secession active in 2025 is when one or more rural counties seek to secede from the current state to join a ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

“Shall the board of (the 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 ...

But proponents of secession argue that particularly in states with massive urban centers ... that it's better to manipulate maps than actually solve problems together. "I think that this creates ...

A detailed state-county map of Illinois. Picture ... The idea of Illinois rural counties seceding arose in 2020. A total of ...