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 of the ...

Alex Brandon/Associated Press Share A new Illinois poll commissioned by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker finds President Donald Trump and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk’s early administration ...

Illinois and Indiana, as a whole, are vastly different politically and culturally: a blue state and red state side by side in the center of the nation, separated by a 159-mile border, with ...

with debate often showing the political differences between the governments of deep-red Indiana and neighboring blue Illinois. Huston highlighted some of the differences on the House floor from ...