Downstate Illinois (the 96 counties outside the six metropolitan Chicago counties) is hurting, yet few seem to notice.A bipartisan downstate caucus of lawmakers could establish a dashboard of goals and priorities for their sprawling region and advocate to achieve them.Downstate stretches 400 miles from north to south and has more than 4 million residents, to Chicago's 2.7 million and about 5.7 million in the suburbs, according to 2020 census data.
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