(The Center Square) – Some Indiana lawmakers want to change their state’s border and welcome 33 Illinois counties that want ...
A bill (HB 1008 as amended) imagines Indiana counties joining together, by a vote of the people, to consider “the possibility of a county: 1. separating from the State of Indiana to form a new ...
Hoosier leaders even one-upped Illinois by including the slogan “Lincoln’s Boyhood Home” on Welcome-to-Indiana border signs ... After 33 Illinois counties — including Clark, Edgar and ...
“To Illinois counties and residents feeling unheard and underrepresented, we hear you. We’d like to invite you to come back home again to Indiana.” According to NBC Chicago, seven Illinois counties ...
A recent analysis from Ball State economist Michael Hicks found that if these Illinois counties were their own state, they would be the second-poorest in the nation. The residents that Indiana ...