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Early Voting opens Wide in Illinois [1]

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Date: 2022-10-24

Today is the beginning of early voting for most locations in Illinois. For the city of Chicago, find your locations at ova.elections.il.gov/…. For suburban Cook County, find them at www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/…. For other counties, start at ova.elections.il.gov/… (it looks the same as above, but the details are different), and then search by zip code.

Hours are generally 9:00 am to 5:00 Monday through Saturday and 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Sunday, with some exceptions as indicated in the listings.

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Who do you vote for? Democrats, obviously. There are some important races In Illinois, and some of them may be close. So be sure to vote for Governor Pritzker and then down the ballot, including judges.



Which leaves the judicial retention elections, which are officially non-partisan. The Cook County Democratic Party sent me a mailer which just said to vote “Yes” to retain all our judges. Which makes sense in Cook County—they were all first elected as Democrats anyway. But I’d like to call out one retention race in particular, which is for the state Supreme Court, First District: here it is important to retain Mary Jane Theis, because the state court is closely divided and Republicans would roll back important progress if they were to gain a majority there.

There are also two referenda on the ballot. One is statewide: a Constitutional Amendment to solidify workers rights to collective bargaining. On this site we’re all in for workers rights, so a “Yes” vote is called for. The other referendum is county-wide, calling for a small increase in the tax to support the Cook County Forest Preserve District. The funds are to be used to support clean air and water, and to improve wildlife habitat. I love the forest preserves—they are my favorite place for biking, for example. So I support this measure strongly, and I hope you will too.

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