Illinois
- In 1925, Cook County, which contains Chicago, considered seceding from Illinois as a new state named Chicago. This proposal was revived in November 2011 by State Representatives Bill Mitchell and Adam Brown, who felt that all of Illinois outside of Cook County should become a separate state due to Chicago "dictating its views" to the rest of the state.
- In 1861, the southern region of Illinois, known as Little Egypt, made a proposal to secede from the rest of Illinois due to cultural and political differences from Chicago and much of Central and Northern Illinois.
- In the early 1970s residents of Forgottonia in western Illinois protested what they felt was a lack of concern for its needs, sparking a secession proposal.
The Mormons had a charter in Nauvoo that left them semi autonomous to the rest of the State of Illinois. http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Nauvoo_Charter
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“An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also folding furniture and a complete camping outfit.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)