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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;
She was born Mary Jane Wendt in Chicago to Eleanore and Kenneth Wendt, a member of the Illinois General Assembly and a longtime judge in Cook County. [1] [2] [3] She is a member of the Democratic Party. [4] She received her bachelor's degree from Loyola University Chicago and her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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.
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.
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]
The 2022 Cook County Board of Commissioners election saw all 17 seats of the Cook County Board of Commissioners up for election to four-year terms. As this was the first election held following the 2020 United States Census , the seats faced redistricting before this election. [ 15 ]
The district was established in 1994, when the board transitioned from holding elections in individual districts, as opposed to the previous practice of having two multi-member districts districts: one for ten members from the city of Chicago and another for seven members from suburban Cook County. [1]
Judith Rice (born July 30, 1957) is an American politician who served as Chicago City Treasurer from 2000 to 2006 and has served as a judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County 7th sub-circuit since 2014.