Chicago Area Voters Can Use Smartphones To Prepare For Election
Both the Cook County Clerk and the Chicago Board of Elections have redesigned their websites so voters can prepare for the election with their smartphones.
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Both the Cook County Clerk and the Chicago Board of Elections have redesigned their websites so voters can prepare for the election with their smartphones.
A Northwest Side man who served as an election judge at the polls last week said he was later notified he wouldn't be paid for his day of work, but an elections official said it's all a misunderstanding -- and a mistake.
Chicago election officials say they have 500 different ballots ready to go, and they are hoping that the ballots get used in the primary Tuesday.
The March 20 Illinois primary election is fast approaching, and so far, the head of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners says the campaign isn't stirring much excitement among voters.
The number of registered voters in Chicago is at the lowest level ever recorded, officials said Monday.
Other states have been going to the polling places and casting votes in this primary election season, and now it's Illinois residents' turn to start the process.
Early voting has ended for Tuesday's Chicago aldermanic runoffs and suburban elections.
Early voting begins today for the aldermanic runoff elections in 14 of the city's 50 wards.
Elections officials fielded thousands of complaints as voters went to the polls in the election for mayor and City Council seats on Tuesday, though only a handful were for serious issues.
Election Day in Chicago means fraud patrols.
Chicago's early voting locations reopened on Friday, after virtually all of them were closed for two days due to the blizzard.
A homeless man is asking a court to put his name on the Chicago election ballot.
The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to review an Illinois Appellate Court ruling that knocked Rahm Emanuel out of the race for mayor.
While Rahm Emanuel fights an appeals court decision booting him from the Chicago mayor's race, the ballots will be printed without his name, the head of the city's election board said Monday.
A court challenge was filed soon after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners recommended that Rahm Emanuel's name appear on the ballot for mayor.
A court challenge was filed soon after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners recommended that Rahm Emanuel's name appear on the ballot for mayor.
Rahm Emanuel could find out very soon whether he will be on the ballot for mayor in February.
Today could be a critical day for Rahm Emanuel's bid to become mayor of Chicago.
Testimony revealed that Rob Halpin sought the large sum from the mayoral hopeful shortly before he filed petitions to run against Emanuel and other contenders.
At an election board hearing on Rahm Emanuel's bid for mayor, his tenant contradicted Emanuel's testimony that his family stored prized possessions in a locked storage area of their house when they moved to Washington, D.C.
Testimony continues today in the residency challenge hearing of Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel.
The residency hearing for Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel lasted about 11 hours Tuesday.
But the mayoral candidate himself is expected to be questioned Tuesday as part of a Board of Elections hearing process.
Chicago's election commissioners sorted through other challenges as a prelude to the Feb. 22 election.
Among the issues: Is Rahm Emanuel a legal resident of Chicago?
