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1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
In 2018, a non-profit organization named "New Illinois" was founded to promote the separation of Chicago from the rest of the state. As an alternative to just Chicago, it has also proposed the split of the whole of Cook County and its surrounding five collar counties (DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, McHenry County, and Will County). [1 ...
The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals.
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
The secession of Cook County, which contains Chicago, to form a separate state, proposed by residents of the more conservative Downstate Illinois to free it from the political influence of the heavily liberal Chicago area. [141] The secession of Southern Illinois from the rest of the state, south of Springfield, with Mt. Vernon as the proposed ...
The Trump administration has filed suit against the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago, arguing their sanctuary laws “interfere” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
(The Center Square) – Street racers could soon face a rude awakening under legislation considered by state lawmakers on Thursday to require speed-limiters for certain offenses. Rep. Mari Leavitt ...
Partition and secession in the United States may refer to: Secession in the United States; List of U.S. state partition proposals This page was last edited on 25 ...