the support of at least one state senator. Idaho Selway County, proposed to be formed from parts of Idaho County and Lewis County. It was rejected in a 1917 referendum. Illinois Lincoln County: Southern Cook County communities, upset at Chicago-centric policies of the county government, petitioned in 2004 to split off the southern portion of the county. The southern communities argue they are in financial ruin due to Cook County policies limiting their ability to attract business, but in reverse, those against the proposal note the split was proposed mainly for the leaders of those communities to evade responsibility to Cook County for persistent political corruption, cronyism, and nepotism. Marquette County: proposed county to be formed from Hancock County, which made progress in the state legislature in 1844. Indiana In 1979 a group called Citizens for Secession attempted to prompt leaders to move Cass County, Michigan to Indiana and change the name to Michiana County. Kansas Garfield County: in 1887, the area around Ravanna and Eminence split from Buffalo County (now split among Lane, Finney, and Gray counties) and organized into Garfield County. Both towns were of equal influence, and contested the award of county seat. An election that year, which involved 20 Dodge City deputies including Bat Masterson, found Ravanna to have the lead. However, Eminence discovered that illegal votes had been cast for Ravanna, and in 1889 the state supreme court overturned 60 votes, awarding Garfield County seat to Eminence. In a doomsday move, Ravanna countered by hiring surveyors to determine that the new county's land area was under the minimum allowed at the time. In 1893 the Kansas state legislature invalidated the county and annexed it to Finney. Today, both Ravanna and Eminence are ghost towns. Louisiana Dugdemona Parish, to be carven from Catahoula Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Rapides Parish in 1850. It did not have the required number of electors, so it was never organized. Troy Parish, proposed in 1890, to be carven from Catahoula Parish. Massachusetts Throughout the history of Worcester County, the largest by area in the state stretching north-south and border-to-border between New Hampshire and Connecticut and Rhode Island, residents of the northern part of the county have pushed for a split. This never occurred, and is now a moot point, as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, county governments in those states have been dissolved, with responsibilities assumed by the state and municipalities within those