I like the first idea about the state reverting to a territory. While the rest sounds good on the surface it blames it all on the current pols when in fact decades of bad management is to blame.
In IL is a republican really any different than a dem? I ask because the majority lives in Chicago, an extreme left city population, so what are the chances of a real republican getting elected? They would have to be so moderate that to us they would appear leftist.
Maybe if they would vote in Universal health care for all it would help (sarc)
The current pols are the ones we have. If you can think of a legal method to deal with the previous parasites, that would be fine.