An Iowa lawmaker says it’s time to explore whether some western Illinois counties might become part of the State of Iowa.
Representative Taylor Collins was born in Macomb, Illinois, but his hometown is Mediapolis, in southeast Iowa. His Iowa House district includes Muscatine, Louisa and Des Moines Counties — which border the Mississippi River.
“I know a lot of folks on both sides of the river,” Collins said, “and I hear consistently from the folks right on the Illinois side that they would much rather be governed by the politics here in Des Moines rather than the politics of Chicago.”…