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Some Illinois counties want to secede. Indiana wants to adopt them.

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House Speaker Todd Huston wants to create an Indiana - Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission to "embrace neighboring counties that want to join low-tax, low-cost Indiana " The bill is one of the supermajority's priority bills for the legislative session, meaning it has a good chance of passing.

Illinois Democrats and downstate Republicans have fought over splitting the state for years .