The Indiana Legislature has passed a bill creating a commission to study the Indiana/Illinois boundary in the hope of stealing away several downstate Illinois counties. Why it matters: The ...

He called the bill a "stunt" and Indiana ... us in low-cost, low-tax Indiana." The bill would establish a commission that would discuss if it is advisable to redraw the Illinois-Indiana border ...

Even leaders of the two groups pushing for the split from Illinois insist they don’t want to become part of Indiana, at least not now.