Separation Issue Stirs Many Strong Feelings

The Troy Times Tribune

Separation Issue Stirs Many Strong Feelings

by Randy Pierce MADISON COUNTY — Seldom has an issue in Madison County surfaced that has resulted in such strong feelings on both sides as those expressed concerning the idea of including an advisory referendum on the November election ballot asking voters whether or not to begin corresponding other similar government units in Illinois about the possibility of forming a new state from which Cook County would be excluded. No less than 10 people w…