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As Lake County Clerk Robin O’Connor reached out to people who served as election judges in the past in hopes they will work in the April 6 municipal elections, she found the coronavirus pandemic in her way.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Chicago area will be added to the roster of those allowed vaccines starting on Monday, but many will be waiting longer to receive their first shot, officials have said.
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
Early voting began Thursday for the Feb. 23 municipal and township primary in Waukegan and North Chicago, but was suspended within a few hours for North Chicago voters because the name of one of two candidates for mayor there was omitted from the ballot due to a clerical error.
Updated 12/22/2020 8:26 AM Editor's note: Dawn Abernathy is running with a full slate composed of trustee candidates Willie Davismckennie, Ray Mullen and Angela Trillhaase, and clerk hopeful Heather Mullen-Gaschler. Mayoral candidates Robin Meier and Steve Lentz each are running solo. Also running independently are trustee candidates Sol Cabachuela, Edith Reese, Tim Wilson and Jenny Ross, as are clerk hopefuls Karen Walsh and Lisa Willems. Four-way mayoral races have materialized up in both Mundelein and Antioch for the April 6, 2021, election. Other contested mayoral races are in Gurnee and ...