Senate Bill 1862 hopes to amend the state’s property tax code and eliminate property taxes for those who have owned a single-family home for 30 years.

Owners of the closed Brassie Golf Club are in talks with Chesterton’s economic development officials about turning their 163-acre property off Pearson Road into a residential development.

A bill that could see nearly three dozen Illinois counties secede is one step closer to passing after it was approved in Indiana's House of Representatives on Thursday.