I wonder if Illinois will go the way of Sweden in that respect
But take Douglas in the Lincoln Douglas debates ~ Douglas was not only a professional midget but his niece's recipe book is gluten free ~ in a time when that wasn't anything anyone outside of Sweden had figured out!
The Scandinavian Belt starts at Springfield ~ goes North in a wide swath, takes in NE Iowa and SW Wisconsin then sweeps on into Minnesota and out onto the Dakotas.
Illinois child custody laws are an abrupt change for someone used to the more family friendly laws further East ~ like Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, the Souf' etc.