It's In The Constitution! (Tweaking my Democratic Friends)

Article. IV. Section. 4. - The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,…

And in the Northwest Ordinance, which is the legislation that enabled the founding of the State of Illinois -
Article 5 - Provided, the constitution and government so to be formed, shall be republican...

If the Founding Fathers determined that it was important that Illinois and the other states in the United States of America shall be Republican, who are we to disagree?