Illinois · Self-Determination
On a fair ballot, a majority of Illinois votes to leave the union.
There is no organized movement for it in Illinois yet. That is exactly what we are here to change.
Illinoisadults in Illinois would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 51% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 2.1 million (21%). How we get this number →
Illinois, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$1.1 trillion, ahead of Netherlands.
people
More than the whole of Belgium. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 516 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Illinois is already a nation in all but name.
If Illinois were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
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Illinois built the skyscraper, sent Lincoln to Washington, and turned a swamp on Lake Michigan into one of the great cities of the continent. This is a place that has always trusted its own hands to build the thing that had never been built before. On a fair, ballot-worded question, put the calm and peaceful way a real vote is put, about 51 percent of Illinois would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 5 million adults.
The adjusted number is the real one because a real vote is nothing like a survey. A ballot is binary and peaceful. It is a yes or a no, decided at the box, with no fight and no chaos attached. When you ask people that clean question instead of the cold abstract one, support runs about 30 points higher. That math puts Illinois at a majority. The 21 percent floor was already the understated version.
What is missing here is each other. Not the appetite, not the numbers, just the connection between the people who already feel this way. We bring the playbook and we bring the connections. We do not run your group and we do not touch your money. You are the one who decides what Illinois's movement looks like, and then you build it.
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Count Me In, Illinois
Be findable. When the next person from Illinois reaches out, we connect you. That is how it starts.
We don't run your group. We don't take your money. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the connections. What you build is yours.
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