eight Illinois counties were hit with a lawsuit in late 2023 alleging they take the whole value of a homeowner’s property in order to recoup a smaller amount, the delinquent taxes. Cook County ...

Sites opened in DuPage, Kane, Will, and McHenry counties, along with Lake County, Illinois. Early voting sites in suburban Cook County don't open until October 9. On October 21, sites open across ...

Another group of Illinois counties has voted to explore whether they should secede from the state, citing significant differences with Cook County and suburban voters. A total of seven counties ...

Thirty-three counties are exploring the possibility of forming a separate state, distancing themselves from Cook County. The Illinois Separation Movement is efforting to get more counties and ...

An Indiana General Assembly bill filed by one of the state's most powerful lawmakers would set up a commission to "embrace" neighboring counties in Illinois ... from Cook County to form a new ...

About the only differences, people just over the border here in the capital city of Clark County will tell ... are so eager to explore whether Illinois border counties that voted to separate ...

A measure aimed at allowing Indiana to absorb 33 counties in Illinois that have voted in recent years to leave the state has cleared its first legislative hurdle, but the effort faces a major ...