No, Indiana doesn't really want these Illinois counties — though it is easy to see why Illinois might not want them either.

Multiple counties want to leave, and Indiana says come on over.

From peaceful southern Illinois, Chicago can look like ... where vast swaths of red, rural counties are dominated by a few blue cities. The divide between urban and rural America has long been ...

Those counties, now 33 in total, have voted to leave the state of Illinois. The language in the referenda involved the counties splitting off to create a new, 51st state—not joining Indiana.

Republicans in the Indiana statehouse have proposed legislation that would redraw the state border with Illinois and annex some southern counties to the Hoosier State. According to Indiana House ...

Explain the meaning behind your flag: The 21 red + white stripes represent Illinois as the 21st state of this union. The blue field with the six-pointed white star represents Chicago. The negative ...

Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar USA TODAY NETWORK A bill introduced in the Indiana legislature by its Republican House Speaker would create a commission to embrace 33 Illinois counties that have voted ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s highest ranking state representative unveiled a plan to redraw Indiana’s boundaries, taking in Illinois ... Voters in blue-state conservative counties ...

Second, neither the red state and blue state models of rural development have worked. The secessionist counties of Illinois look just like 40 or 50 declining rural counties in Indiana. Both ...