Connor Towne O'Neill
speaker
230 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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They point to the state's debt, an underfunded pension system.
They claim the state's being overtaxed.
These are all things they want to get away from.
That's right.
That's the game plan.
Totally, totally.
And you aren't alone in thinking it performative.
I reached out to Governor J.B.
Pritzker for comment about New Illinois.
He called it a stunt.
Except the thing is, after all my reporting, it doesn't seem like a stunt to me.
New Illinois is serious, and they're organized.
Okay, so to understand that, you've got to meet Lorette Newland.
So Newland is very much a New Illinois secessionist.
But her focus is on the mechanics of making it happen.
So she has her own group that works in tandem with New Illinois.
It's called the Illinois Separation Referendum.
Yes.
Part of the reason that New Illinois has had so much traction is in part because they've actually been able to get the question of secession onto the ballot.
Like this is a thing that people are voting on on Election Day.
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