We’ve come across this petition, submitted on our Facebook page by Anthony Parks, and we think it’s a brilliant idea…it calls for separation of eleven Chicago-metro area counties from the rest of Illinois, and points out that while politicians have talked about doing this very thing for the past 45 years or so, it’s never been taken to the people for input. Now, it’s time for the people to take it to the politicians for input. We’re therefore requesting that you copy and paste the below petition and send it to our state reps…ALL of them…en masse…and let them know what we think. I seriously doubt there’s any movement on to STOP this kind of thing, and that if an overwhelming number of people take action, who knows? it’s entirely possible this could be done. The eleven counties could have their own, county-level gun ban, and leave the rest of us alone with concealed carry come June 10. So copy and paste. The fate of our state could rest in YOUR hands.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. – The Declaration of Independence – 1776
The deep moral, cultural and political divide between the 11 counties of the Chicago metro area (Cook, Lake, Boone, DeKalb, Kendall, Grundy, Kankakee, McHenry, Kane, Will, and DuPage) and the other 91 counties in the present State of Illinois has become an unbridgeable gap.
The history of the present State of Illinois is a history of repeated corruption being the direct result of an absolute Chicago control over the rest of the State. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
The 11 counties of the Chicago metro area are 6,057.76 Sq. miles or 10.75 percent of the state of Illinois, but unlike the federal level of government, both the Senate and the House are population based.
The 11 counties of the Chicago metro area get 41 in the senate and 83 in the house, 70 percent of all representation, leaving 30 percent to the remaining 91 counties.
Some suburban school districts are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for granting large end-of-career raises to retiring administrators and teachers. The state passed a law in 2005 that penalizes districts for driving up educator pension costs by granting raises of more than 6 percent in their final three years of employment. The law was intended to stop the practice.
The ever-repulsive mayor of Chit-town, Rahm Emanuel
Mayor Rahm Emanuel again has been able to attract major campaign contributions from Hollywood stars, thanks to his super-agent brother, Ari Emanuel.
More than 55 percent of contributions reported by the mayor’s political fund since the start of the year have come from out of state, according to documents filed this week with the Illinois State Board of Elections. – Sun Times April 16 2013
In the Northern District of Illinois, which includes Chicago, there have been a total of 1,531 public corruption convictions since 1976. – University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dick Simpson
Since the 1970s, four of Illinois’ seven governors have been convicted (Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich). In addition, dozens of Chicago alderman and other city and county public officials have been found guilty. – University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dick Simpson
Corruption is intertwined with city politics. Simpson found that about a third of sitting aldermen (in Chicago) since 1973 have been corrupt. – University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dick Simpson
Others on the elected official corruption list: (not a complete list)
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Cook County Commissioner William Beavers
US Rep. Dan Rostenkowski
Arenda Troutman
Paul Powell
Lennington Small
Isaac Carothers
Ed Vrdolyak
James Laski
Betty Loren-Maltese
Nicholas B. Blasé
Chicago Alderman Virgil Jones
Al Sanchez
John Briatta
Daniel Katalinic
Patrick Slattery
Oftentimes the representation from the Chicago land area seems to forget about the rural areas of the state and their way of life, and with a 70 percent vote, the rest of the state does not stand a chance.
On the date of the next general election, I want a non-binding resolution on the statewide Illinois ballot, to gather the general feelings of the people of Illinois as to whether the state should become two states: State of Chicago and the State of Illinois.
As well as Parks’ document, there’s also an online petition you can sign.
The next general election, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections, is March 18, 2014. Will this be a statewide referenda on that ballot? Let’s try to make that the case.