Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that ...

Illinois Republicans propose bills to lower property taxes, which are currently the second highest in the nation, amid a mass exodus of residents.

According to the Department of Public Health, experienced 3,261 fatal opioid-related drug overdoses in 2022, and 2,855 in ...

the Republican-majority Indiana General Assembly wants to adjust Indiana’s border and welcome the unhappy counties into the Hoosier state. The plan to create the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third ...

The Indiana House gave a stamp of approval to Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s bill that creates a commission to discuss how Illinois counties could secede from their state and join Indiana.

Elections in Rock Island are officially nonpartisan, but some aldermanic candidates have prior associations with a party. All ...

State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican, is among the latest of Illinois lawmakers to propose legislation that would regulate ...