Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker slammed Indiana Wednesday, referring to the Hoosier State as a “low-wage” state that “doesn’t protect workers.” “[Indiana is] a state that does not provide health care for people when they’re in need,

Indiana Speaker of the House Todd Huston wants to start a dialogue with his neighboring state. On Tuesday, the Speaker announced he wants to create the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission,

Legislation is being considered by state lawmakers that would redraw the state boundaries of Indiana to include a handful of counties in Illinois that are considering secession from the state. In the last year 33 counties in Illinois have held referenda in which residents in these counties approved plans to look into the possibility of seceding from Illinois and forming a new state.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures.

A bill introduced in the Indiana legislature by its Republican House speaker would create a commission to embrace 33 Illinois counties that have voted for a symbolic measure to leave Illinois and create a new state.

Indiana's legislature upped a long-standing rivalry with Illinois by introducing a bill to steal disgruntled counties. Why it matters: Indiana Republicans are seizing on the discord between Cook County and the state's rural counties,