Early voting in Chicago: Here's when you can cast your ballot
Early voting for the primary election is less than a month away.
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Early voting for the primary election is less than a month away.
Hours before a midnight deadline, Congress passed a short-term funding bill to keep the government running for 45 days.
More than 613,000 ballots were cast - that's a nearly 39% voter turnout.
Many Chicagoans aren't waiting until Tuesday to make their choice in the mayoral run-off.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are facing off for mayor in the runoff.
More than 68,000 people have voted early.
As of Tuesday night, nearly 26,000 early votes have been cast.
More than 158 thousand Chicagoans have already early voted for Tuesday's city election.
Chicago Public Schools students old enough to vote participated in "Parade to the Polls" to cast their ballots for the Feb. 28 mayoral election.
New numbers from the Board of Elections said 23,718 ballots have been cast, including more than 21,000 vote by mail ballots and more than 2,400 early votes.
You can vote early at two places in The Loop today.
The election is almost a month away on February 28, and you can vote for your alderman and next mayor among other races.
Voters can go to the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan to cast a ballot.
Starting today people living in the city can vote for up to six names.
As of early Monday morning, more than 269,000 people have already voted early by mail or in-person in Chicago.
Voters in DuPage County are not limited to a single polling place.
While polls opened at 6 a.m., some polling places did not open until after 7 a.m. Aside from a late start, the biggest issue reported during voting has been Sharpies bleeding through the ballots.
CBS 2's Asal Rezaei said as of 11 a.m., already 350 people have voted at the Elmhurst City Hall. Voters told Rezaei the process has been pretty simple.
All 50 wards have early voting sites.
With just 25 days until the election, voters in Chicago and suburban Cook County can now cast their ballots.
Here's where you can go to cast your ballot.
Early voting begins today in several places for the November general election.
The court did not address the question of whether anyone other than the voter can return his or her own ballot by mail.
"I'm very frustrated because it should be such an easy process. They've done this before. The election is important to everybody."
The Illinois primary is coming up Tuesday, and early voting numbers ahead of that date were down in Chicago. But that has not been the case everywhere.
