Don't you get tired of a couple counties deciding your entire elections? I heard an interesting comment the other day, the Mayor of Chicago is more like the Gov of the state. That's really sad. Good luck to you with all the crap you're going through. I don't know if you listen to our Milwaukee talk radio market, 1130 am, lesser; 620 am. The double whammy commie attack sucks. At least NOW we have a fighting chance here. You should see all the Ohio cars I'm seeing here lately.
I’m not actually from Illinois (and I don’t get WGN anymore, so I don’t even get to watch Chicago’s local news anymore).
A few years ago, I proposed creating a State of Chicagoland (for lack of a better term) that would comprise Cook and Lake Counties in IL, Lake County in IN, and Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee Counties in WI. The state’s 13 electoral votes would be safely Democrat, and it would elect 2 Democrat Senators and probably have a 10-1 House delegation, but it would make the surrounding states of IN (now with 10 EVs) safely Republican and WI (now with 8 EVs) and IL (now with 12 EVs) comfortably Republican. Republicans would get 30 electoral votes to only 13 for Democrats in the area that is currently comprised by WI, IL and IN (in 2004 Kerry got 31 EVs to Bush’s 11 in the region, and Obama won all 42 EVs in 2008); and Republicans would elect 6 Senators to only 2 for the Dems (the region currently has 4 Republican and 2 Dem Senators, and until last year there were 4 Democrat and 2 Republican Senators). IL and WI would finally be free of the pervasive influence of Chicago and Milwaukee in their states.
Forgot to mention, that map you posted was from a Nov. 9, 2010 article; Dave Leip got his info when he searche the Illinois State Board of Elections (http://www.elections.state.il.us/) on December 3, 2010, and I guess that absentee votes or something put Quinn over the top in Jackson County (which he only carried by 1.01%).