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Here’s what to know before Tuesday’s Election Day in Illinois, from key races to the amendment on the ballot to where to vote and much more.

In final days of the campaign, the real work comes down to getting candidate base voters to show up at the polls.

Election officials in Chicago said pre-Election Day turnout has increased in recent weeks after turnout about a month ago had seemed low.

Jean Langlais (1907–1991) composed his organ Mass Suite médiévale in 1947, drawing on a rich tradition of French organ suites composed for use during the “low” Mass. Changes to the liturgy after the Second Vatican Council (“Vatican II”) in 1962 drastically reduced the role of the organ during the Mass, thereby eliminating the need for the French organ Mass. Suite médiévale is one example of a body of small-scale liturgical organ compositions that no longer carry their intended relevance due to changes to the liturgy.

Courtesy of Nancy Barnard How many music posters can fit in a forty-by-sixty-foot barn in Hill Country?  It’s a problem that Nancy Barnard, the former co-owner of San Marcos’s Sundance Records, is struggling to solve. “Fifteen hundred [posters]? Two thousand? We were reaching hoarder levels of stuff, if I’m being honest,” she says. And posters are just one part of her massive collection, which includes thousands of items of music memorabilia.  Barnard owned the beloved record store until 2012 with her late husband, Bobby Barnard, who died last August after thirty years as a fixtur...