Seven counties voted in favor of secession, and in six of those counties, more than 70% of voters were in favor of the measure.
  • pwnicholson
    10•7 months ago

    Federal funding wouldn’t stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      16•7 months ago

      The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.

      • pwnicholson
        9•7 months ago

        If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That’s the only way they’d leave.

        • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          3•7 months ago

          Yes but that circumstance could happen regardless of actions taken by the state of Illinois so it doesn’t have any impact on the plans I laid out.