Indeed, the shrewd move in 1818 by Nathaniel Pope, the Illinois territory’s delegate in Congress, to relocate the original proposed boundary ... of Lake County. “What we call the northern ...

Kane County officials are poised to vote on the new boundaries for the 24 ... board has until Dec. 30 to approve a new map. If it cannot do so, the Illinois Attorney General may take over the ...

YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials in northeast Illinois have approved plans for a historical marker to commemorate the original location of the state’s northern boundary. The aluminum cast ...

Democrats at the Illinois statehouse early Friday morning passed new congressional maps, which will last for the next decade, hours after the latest legislative boundaries were released late ...

(AP) — Democratic legislators have released proposed maps for the state's 118 House and 59 Senate districts that they said "ensure the broad racial and geographic diversity of Illinois is ...

Were it not for the action of an enterprising lawyer 200 years ago, the northern portion of Illinois would have the badger as the state animal and Green Bay Packers as the home football team.