House Bill 1008 from Republican House Speaker Todd Huston would create a commission to study how 33 Illinois counties could ...

HERRIN, Ill. (KFVS) - A yearlong drug investigation leads to the arrest of four people in southern Illinois. According to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, deputies executed a search warrant at ...

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.

The "secessionist" counties in Illinois are in the southern part of the state, with many bordering Indiana. This one-third of counties comprise only 6.6% of the Illinois population, and only 4% of ...

The bill’s author, Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, said the fact that 33 rural counties in southern Illinois have voted in non-binding ballot measures to secede from their state led him to write ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Retired Edwardsville School Superintendent Ed Hightower has received the Outstanding Commitment in Education ...

Huston sidestepped a lot of questions about the practicalities of Indiana potentially taking in a batch of mostly rural counties located in central and southern Illinois by emphasizing his ...

A winter storm is projected to hit western Kentucky, northwestern Tennessee and southern Illinois Tuesday afternoon. The ...

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

BREESE, Ill. -- A man dove into a frozen pond to try and save his wife after a traffic crash in southern Illinois. The crash happened Sunday morning along Rod and Gun Road just north of Breese, ...

Local officials — many from rural counties in southern and central parts of Illinois — cited frustrations over high taxes, as well as the wide cultural divide between rural Illinois and urban ...