McHenry County showed its red roots in Tuesday’s election. While vote totals are unofficial, Republicans held comfortable leads in countywide races that late ballots are unlikely to change. Republicans took the two big local races, with state Rep. Steven Reick winning a third term, holding a lead of more than 5,000 votes over Woodstock Mayor […]
By JERRY NOWICKICapitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Although nearly 3.6 million Illinoisans had already voted by Monday morning, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections, nearly 2.3 million ballots are still to be cast if the state is to match the 70.56 percent turnout of 2016. As of Monday, there were 586,709 mail-in ballots […]
Last week The Independentpublished its Voters Guide, which contains information we hope will help people to make decisions about which candidates to vote for in the Nov. 3 election. That wasn’t unusual. We publish a guide of candidate information before every election. What was out of the ordinary this fall was that we published it four […]
Turnout was heavier than usual this morning on the first day for early voting in the Nov. 3 presidential election. While first-day voting in the clerk’s office at the Administrative Building in Woodstock normally has no more than a few dozen voters, more than 320 ballots had been cast by 2 p.m. today. The voting […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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