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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.