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] Chicago's contingencies of student judges are the largest in the country. Illinois law [12] provided that students meet the following criteria to serve as Election Judges: Be a high school junior or senior in good standing; Have a grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; Be a U.S. citizen by Election Day;
Judicial elections to the Circuit Court of Cook County were also held. All 61 justices up for retention elections were retained. [1] [20] There were 29 partisan elections to fill judicial vacancies. Democratic nominees won all of these, with only one judicial race having a competitive general election (featuring a Republican Party opponent). [1]
In Cook County, elections were held for State's Attorney, Clerk of the Circuit Court, one seat on the Board of Review, 2 seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and several judgeships in the Circuit Court of Cook County and its subcircuits.
The election also saw a record number of requests made for mail-in ballots, with both Chicago and the rest of Cook County seeing numbers of requests surpassing any previous election. [6] In Chicago there were 118,000 such requests, with over 80,000 mail-in ballots ultimately being returned and counted. [7]
Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago, 394 U.S. 802 (1969), [1] was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that an Illinois law that denied absentee ballots to inmates awaiting trial did not violate their constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Daniel B. Shanes, Judge of the Lake County Circuit Court (19th Judicial Circuit) [11] Mark C. Curran , former Lake County sheriff (2006–2018), Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2020 [ 13 ] Susan F. Hutchinson, Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court (2nd District) [ 14 ]
In the 2022 election, Brandon Johnson was re-elected as commissioner for the 1st district on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. After his election as Mayor of Chicago in 2023, Tara Stamps was appointed to replace him. [6] Stamps is running for re-election to a full term, and faces a challenger in the Democratic primary election.
First day for early voting at the offices of the Board and at permanent and temporary polling place locations designated by the Board (beginning the 15th day preceding the election). Early voting shall be conducted at permanent polling places between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and ...