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Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Tuesday is the runoff election in the Chicago mayoral race, with numbers showing residents are preferring early voting to in-person.

We spoke with voters across the city casting their ballot in the Chicago runoff election for the mayor and 14 aldermanic candidates.

Voter turnout sat at 33.2% when polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, with 530,382 ballots cast, according to the Chicago Board of Elections. That's compared to 32.1% turnout for the Feb. 28 election.

Voting at the Cook County Jail has risen sharpy since the jail added pioneering in-person polling places in 2020.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how poll workers would treat her, especially as a voter who is blind.

Advocates for people with disabilities are saying disabled voters face barriers at the polls. Some obstacles include polling locations that don't have ramps or door knobs.

Severe weather conditions could make for a hazardous Election Day across Illinois Tuesday, sparking officials to urge residents to vote early if possible, but...

The National Weather Service Chicago forecast a chance for severe storms on Election Day in the afternoon leading into the evening.

“I highly doubt either camp will concede on election night because up to 100,000 votes may not be counted when we go to bed on election night,” said pollster Matt Podgorski of M3 Strategies.