Senate President Don Harmon is appealing Illinois election officials’ assertion he accepted $4 million more in political cash than allowed.

April 15, is the final day for local election officials to count Vote by Mail and Provisional ballots, from the April 1, election. How it works is the Vote by Mail and Provisional ballots postmarked by election day can be counted no later than 14 days after the election.

The Indiana Senate has passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, would create a commission to study the possibility of a relocation of the Illinois-Indiana state line to annex disgruntled Illinois counties.

The real estate trade group’s political action committee spent $76,000 on Illinois municipal races where candidates lost.