• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.

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        If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That’s the only way they’d leave.

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          Yes but that circumstance could happen regardless of actions taken by the state of Illinois so it doesn’t have any impact on the plans I laid out.