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

This time, rural and regional counties in Illinois want to dump their urban cousins. It’s part of a movement sweeping across the United States. Democrat and Republican communities no longer want ...

The shutdown launched protests and a federal lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents ... Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan ...

In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been asked if they want to consider separating from Chicago’s Cook County to form ... to stick with the Union during the Civil War.

The Illinois Big Tree Register is being tidied up and brings a reminder of how many champion trees are around us, including ...

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.

Republicans threw a stink bomb into the chambers of the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court. Citing the Illinois Constitution’s requirement that legislative maps be “compact,” the GOP ...

In November, seven Illinois counties — Iroquois, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jersey, Madison and Perry counties — voted to secede from the state. Iroquois County is along the Indiana border ...

Lake County was recently named the wealthiest county in Illinois, according to finance website SmartAsset, and one southwestern Illinois locale cracked the top 10, as well.