War, what is it good for?

An Indiana House committee has advanced a bill that would adopt several Illinois counties that indicated they wanted to secede from the state, which acts as a shocking update to the story that we talked about last month. During that morning’s edition of Brian & Kenzie, we talked to Hoosiers who were ready to wage war on Illinois. We are now one step closer to that reality.

An organization called New Illinois has been pursuing the formation of a new state, “separate from the current State of Illinois, Urban Cook County and Chicago,” for several years. The process to annex those counties into Indiana would have to go through both Illinois and Indiana statehouses and Washington D.C. Redrawing state borders would ultimately take an act of Congress.