There is not a greater example of a mostly red state being turned blue by one big city. I would think that the rest of the state would not want to be governed by a city that is completely different from the rest of the population, and want to join with other states instead, or make their own Greater Illinois, or whatever. It's worse than Oregon and Washington, and those places have efforts to join with another state, so why not Illinois? I did read they are having a population decline, which is probably mostly people from rural towns moving out of state to be where the laws are actually favorable to farming.