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Chicago-area election officials gear up for potential ICE, FBI presence at the polls after Trump threats (opens the original)
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Before federal immigration agents stormed across the Chicago region last year and President Donald Trump threatened to send in the National Guard, Gov. JB Pritzker warned both moves aimed to “normalize” a federal military presence to intimidate voters and depress turnout in the 2026 midterms. Some at the time viewed Pritzker’s contention as a bit of a stretch, given federal laws prohibit armed civil or military personnel at the polls and state laws bar election interference. But as the immigrati
Early voting begins Thursday in collar counties but not until Oct. 1 in Chicago and Oct. 7 in suburban Cook (opens the original)
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With 40 days until the Nov. 3 general election, the babble of politicians turns to balloting by voters on Thursday, with early in-person voting opening outside Cook County and mail-in ballots being sent to voters who requested them. Early voting in Chicago and suburban Cook County will begin in October. The launch of mail-in balloting in the collar counties and beyond in Illinois begins after months of attempts by President Donald Trump to restrict the practice by using the U.S. Postal Service a
Illinois Democrats cheer Supreme Court mail-in voting order while President Trump lashes out at justices (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for blocking his efforts to give the U.S. Postal Service power to determine who can receive and cast mail-in ballots, while top Illinois Democrats and national voting rights experts hailed the ruling and said it would prevent chaos for the Nov. 3 general election. In an unsigned order released Monday night, the court rejected Trump’s push to have the Postal Service require states to submit lists of eligible mail-in voters and
Trump backs Darren Bailey for Illinois governor as GOP candidate has sought to distance himself from president (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump has endorsed Darren Bailey for governor, a move that undercuts the Republican nominee’s attempts to distance himself from a president unpopular in Illinois and whose backing contributed to Bailey’s loss to Democrat JB Pritzker in 2022. “I’ve already endorsed him. I’m all for Bailey,” Trump told reporters as he prepared to depart Ireland on Sunday after a two-day trip that mixed diplomatic meetings with attending the Amgen Irish Open golf tournament at his resort in Doonbeg
Illinois ethics panel accepts resignation and moves to quickly name acting legislative watchdog (opens the original)
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The state’s Legislative Ethics Commission agreed Thursday to a Sept. 30 retirement date for Michael McCuskey as the legislature’s top ethics watchdog and said it plans to move quickly to appoint an acting legislative inspector general who could end up serving the nearly two years remaining in McCuskey’s term. The commission — made up of two lawmakers from each of the General Assembly’s House and Senate Democratic and Republican caucuses — said in an announcement that it plans to name McCuskey’s
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