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The Southern
For downstate Illinois residents who want to breakaway from Chicago the suburbs and form their own state, two Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers have an emphatic caution:
Don t do it.
In a whitepaper released earlier this year by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, a think tank at the university, political scientists John Foster and John Jackson said analysis of Illinois state revenue and budgeting over recent years shows downstate Illinoisans would be worse off without Chicago than they are with their northeastern neighbors.
âOur basic premise is that people really ought to understand where their tax money is raised and where itâs being spent,â Jackson, who serves as a visiting professor with the Institute, said. âI have been at SIU over five decades and there has always been a basic misunderstanding about this. You always hear that we in Southern Illinois donât get our fair share and that somehow
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