In response to these developments, Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston introduced House Bill 1008 in January 2025.
This bill proposes the creation of an “Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission” to consider incorporating the secessionist Illinois counties into Indiana.
The movement began in 2020, with several counties holding referendums each election cycle. In the November 2024 elections, seven additional counties—Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Iroquois, Jersey, Madison, and Perry—voted in favor of exploring separation from Illinois.
Indiana wants me.
That’s electoral votes and congressional seats. And money.
And the red counties in CA, OR and WA are watching.
I say make it a trade and give them Gary!
Could this plan to secede from Illinois has been caused by the fat blob Governor and the crooked Cook County machine?
isolate the cities ...
Sorry, this FReeper doesn’t support changing state borders for any reason, and if they do get changed, it’s just as likely we’d get burned by changes in the future, given our idiocy elsewhere (like 500,000 Trump voters sitting out the 2020 Georgia Senate runoffs so that Biden could have a majority in the US Senate).
Weird.
Cook county, been crook county for a long time. Capone days and before I believe. Yeah, it’s not right.
Madison County (metro St. Louis) is a former Democrat stronghold that has supported Republicans for president since 2012 and for governor for a couple of elections before that. In believe the county board is all Republican. Trump helped to reopen a steel mill in Granite City during his first term, which was a big deal for the economy in this old heavy industry area. I don’t know if they will be successful in leaving Illinois, but I like seeing red Illinois standing up for itself in other ways.
As much as I would love to see this happen, it has to be pretty much impossible, right?
I do hope they pull it off. Here in Oregon we have the same initiative. Several east Oregon counties want to become part of Idaho.
If this succeeds there will be more states realigned. Most of western Minnesota would join the Dakotas
Illinois has turned to crap under democraps. They are one of the states that has the highest percentage loss of population leaving to other states, like CA and NY.
I have a daughter and grandkids in Lake County and a son and dil in DuPage County. Unfortunately, neither of those counties want to secede. :(
When the majority of Illinois folks would vote for it to happen, it could happen. Getting fedgov to do it, well, there wouldn’t be any better atmosphere for that to happen, than these next 4 years.
Greater indiana. Greater Idaho. The I’s have it, make the move!
I don’t have a map in front of me, but I’m thinking that if all 33 counties went to Indiana, Springfield would be isolated from Chicago. The dems might be able to make a state running along I-57 from Springfield to the St. Louis suburbs, and there could be another state surrounding Chicago.
How long will it take for them to arrest Pritzker?
It’ll never happen. The smart thing to do would be to move the state capital to Chicago. Make the counties in and around Cook County the new state of Illinios, and let the rest of the state secede to make its own new state.
I wonder how many of the Illinois county’s will agree to change their names, as several of the names already exist in Indiana: Jasper Co (where I live), Brown Co, Wayne Co, Marion Co, Clinton Co, and several others.