Miss Madison and Miss Calhoun County Fair queens reached the Top 16 in the 2025 Miss Illinois County Fair Queen Pageant.

Colleen Schumann, the reigning Miss Calhoun County, achieved a top finish out of 74 contestants at the 2024 Miss Illinois ...

Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois, but the proposed action ...

Several Illinois counties that have explored the idea of secession might be welcomed with open arms in Indiana. Legislators ...

A bill filed by Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston would create a commission to "embrace neighboring counties that want to ...

Republicans in the Indiana statehouse have proposed legislation that would redraw the state border with Illinois and annex ...

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. Among those, two counties that border Vermilion County, Iroquois ...

About November: Seven Illinois counties voted in favor of exploring secession. The rural counties of Iroquois, Calhoun, Clinton, Green, Jersey, Madison and Perry all voted to examine “the possibility ...

The rural Illinois counties of Calhoun, Clinton ... counties should explore “the possibility of separating from Cook County to form a new state and to seek admission to the Union as such.” ...