(1826) Map of the surveyed ... Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. State legislatures and territorial governments started creating county and township governments in 1790. Charter townships were ...

Republicans are considering the proposal after roughly a third of counties in the Prairie state voted to break away ...

Indiana has looked at adding 33 counties from Illinois ... Clinton, Green, Jersey, Madison and Perry voted “yes” to whether they should explore “the possibility of separating from Cook ...

Clinton County, Pa. — Clinton County went from 21 townships to 20 as a proposed merger took effect on Jan. 1. East Keating Township became a part of Noyes Township, making it the first official ...

Gieleghem, 54, was township treasurer for eight years. A Democrat, he previously served on the Macomb County board and in the ...

The Clinton Township Kiwanis Club reaches into many corners of the area with its generosity. For 33 years, its annual wild game dinner has provided about half of the revenue the club needs every ...

CLINTON COUNTY, Ill. — A 63-year-old Germantown resident was sentenced to 32 years in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material, a statement from the Illinois Attorney General's Office ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (CBS) -- A special election was held Tuesday to pick a new Thornton Township trustee — a pick that Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard wanted to make herself.

Part of Interstate 80 in Centre and Clinton counties was closed for about seven hours after a three-vehicle crash Monday evening led to one driver being transported to a nearby hospital via ...

York County Regional Police appear primed to welcome Spring Garden Township's officers into the ranks, reflecting the long-running consolidation of local law enforcement. The township's Board of ...