Kelli Smith

Voters grab "I Voted" stickers inside of Village Hall on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Arlington Heights.

Voters in line at suburban Cook County polls Monday told to go home at 7 p.m. cutoff

November 3, 2020 at 8:56 p.m.

Poll workers at some Cook County early voting sites sent home voters who were still in line about 7 p.m. Monday, but officials said Tuesday that election judges made that...

Poll worker Aana Vigen places a flag outside the Ward 49 voting site at the Rogers Park Library in the 6900 block of North Clark Street in Chicago, as Election Day voting begins early in the morning of Nov. 3, 2020.

Chicago’s Election Day should be ‘no different’ from past years and most results should be in by 10 p.m., election official says

November 3, 2020 at 2:02 a.m.

The Chicago Board of Elections is expecting this year's Election Day to be no different from past elections and hopes to have 90% of the city's results in by 10...

Kim Le Mezo fills out her mail-in ballot Oct. 23, 2020, at her home in Chicago. Le Mezo said it was her first time using a mail-in ballot, which she requested due to uncertainty about voting in person due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With thousands completing ballots from home because of the pandemic, voters engage in new ways to discuss election issues

November 3, 2020 at 1:55 a.m.

Adam Kallish said he doesn't think he'll ever go back to voting in person after this election. The 57-year-old from Rogers Park applied for a mail-in ballot for the first...

Canvassers with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights do a final push to get out the vote Nov. 2, 2020, in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.

Immigrant-focused coalition canvasses in Little Village ahead of Election Day: ‘We left it all out there’

November 3, 2020 at 12:21 a.m.

On the eve of Election Day, four teams of two went door-to-door Monday morning in Little Village with flyers advocating one central message: Vote a pro-immigrant ballot. The effort was...

People fill out their ballot during early voting at Welles Park in Chicago, Oct. 14, 2020.

Voters in Chicago, surrounding suburbs hit the polls on the final weekend before Election Day: ‘I just want to make sure my vote is in there.’

November 2, 2020 at 1:14 a.m.

With Election Day fast approaching, voters in Chicago and beyond were hustling Sunday to cast their ballots ahead of a general election that many say could have seismic implications both...

Passersby look over damage at the Jonathan Adler store on Aug.10, 2020.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveils security plan for election-related civil unrest, urges peaceful protests

October 30, 2020 at 10:24 p.m.

Under pressure to avoid a repeat of this summer's civil unrest, Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a 10-day preparedness plan aimed at preventing looting and chaos on Chicago's streets around Halloween...

Voters fill out their ballots during the early morning of Election Day inside the super site polling place at the United Center on Nov. 3, 2020.

United Center to serve as polling place on Election Day

November 3, 2020 at 1:46 p.m.

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners plans to use the United Center on the Near West Side as a voting super site on Tuesday, giving all city voters another option...

Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, listens to speakers during a get-out-the-vote rally by the families of George Floyd, Taylor, Jacob Blake and Alvin Cole in downtown Chicago on Oct. 29, 2020.

‘Standing together, they can’t stop us.’ Families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake and Alvin Cole speak at Grant Park rally to urge people to vote.

October 29, 2020 at 11:11 p.m.

Greeted by a standing ovation and chants of "say her name," Breonna Taylor's mother and the families of other people of color shot or killed by police gathered Thursday for...

Margarita Santoni drops off her mail-in ballot in a secured drop box at Truman College in Chicago on Oct. 14, 2020.

Suburban Cook County ‘on pace’ to shatter all previous voting records in last week of election, clerk says

October 27, 2020 at 11:37 p.m.

Suburban Cook County has sent out all of its requested mail-in ballots to voters and is on pace to shatter all previous voting records in the final week to Election...

Chicago election officials still looking to assign polling places for 7 precincts in the final stretch to Election Day

October 27, 2020 at 10:04 p.m.

A week before Election Day, Chicago election officials on Tuesday still were looking to assign polling places for seven precincts, a process they said was complicated this year by COVID-19....

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