For the third time since 2014, a bipartisan group wants to amend the Illinois Constitution to affect how state legislative ...

Researchers noted that there are some caveats to the data. In states or counties with a smaller population or sample size, the estimates are derived less from the CDC survey responses.

And, while the rest of Illinois has experienced very modest population growth of about 1.4%, these secessionist counties have lost a whopping 5.2% of their population.

While Illinois lost population as a whole in recent years, 15 of its 102 counties gained residents from 2020 to 2024, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau’s estimates of the ...

This one-third of counties comprise only 6.6% of the Illinois population and only 4% of the state’s economy. Per capita income in the secessionist counties is $54,381.

Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest, according to a Stateline analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau ...

This one-third of counties comprise only 6.6% of the Illinois population, and only 4% of the state’s economy. Per capita income in the secessionist counties is $54,381.