Numerous bills have been introduced in the Illinois legislature that would dissolve townships with varying populations, including 50,000, 5,000 and 500 people.

After several years of decline, the population is increasing, helped by immigration, while outbound migration slows.

February 12, 2025 - December 10, 2025 This year we have a fantastic variety of topics being presented by The University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and Educators along with Educators and ...

House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, appears to be entirely serious about his idea for Indiana to negotiate with Illinois about ... be tied to Chicago or Cook County. Huston not only authored ...

Adults 65 or older might qualify for a property tax exemption of up to $6,000 of a property's assessed value (up to $10,000 in Cook County and $8,000 in counties contiguous to Cook). Illinois ...

Subscribe to Gardeners Corner, a quarterly newsletter from the Illinois Extension team of horticulture experts. URBANA — As spring creeps closer and closer, gardeners start to get the itch to go ...

SO THIS IS TRACY CHIEF RANDALL BRADLEY HEADS THE SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY AND HAS BEEN ANTICIPATING CAL FIRE’S RELEASE OF THE FIRE SEVERITY MAPS. SO 6000 HOMES AND THIS IS WHAT ...

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.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana House committee has advanced a bill to start the process of potentially annexing counties from Illinois. House Bill 1008, authored by Indiana Speaker Rep. Todd Huston ...

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 ...