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

[ShazzieB]

13. They don't!

That may be the craziest part of the whole thing!

According to the op, the actual ballot question is as follows:

Shall the board of _______ 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 admission to the Union as such, subject to the approval of the people?

So I guess they're asking the voters of each County to vote on whether to give their county board permission to "correspond with the boards of other counties of Illinois, outside of Cook County" about getting on board with this. It sounds like they think if they get enough other counties to join them, those counties can all somehow get together and kick Cook County out of the state or something. That's how I read it, anyway.

There may be quite a few red counties in the state that would go for this, who knows. But the chance of actually separating Cook County from any other part of the state seems about as likely as teaching an aardvark to sing!