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 ...

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

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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.

In recent years, 33 Illinois counties have said they've had it with the state, and have voted to secede — or leave Illinois altogether. Now, an Indiana bill is looking to capitalize on all of ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A plan to have several Illinois counties join Indiana has advanced to the Indiana Senate. House Bill 1008 passed out of the House on Thursday, Feb. 20. It now heads to the Indiana ...

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 ...

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 ...