Split Cook County from Illinois? A ballot question for some voters this fall

[Rincewind]

3. I live in Illinois, Central Illinois,

near the University of Illinois. If you look at a Red/blue map of Illinois, you'll see a really big blue blob around Chicago and most of it's surrounding communities. There is a much smaller blue area around East St. Louis. And a tiny blue dot in Urbana where a lot of the U of I professors live. The rest of the state is red. Chicago is around 23% of the state's population, add in the surrounding communities, it's around 45-49%. So, if they split off, Illinois becomes a deep red state, and the gopers get two more Senators.