Articles filed under Elections

• Early voting in primary election continues through Feb. 23 Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Early voting for the Feb. 26 primary election began Monday and continues through Saturday, Feb. 23. In the Northwest suburbs, a Republican primary will take place in Palatine Township for the offices of supervisor, trustee, clerk and highway commissioner. In Elgin, a nonpartisan primary will whittle down a field of nine people running for a single 2-year council seat.
  

   
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  Tax increase questions on several DuPage ballotsFeb 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Voters in several DuPage County communities will weigh in this spring on an array of ballot questions from governmental entities, including five that are seeking more tax money.
  

   

• No. 1 key issue: ‘To get elected’(and other pearls)Feb 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  While plowing through local candidates' responses to Daily Herald questionnaires, DuPage/Fox Valey News Director Jim Davis found mostly serious, issue-oriented answers -- and a few quirky nuggets.
  

   

• Write-in bid for D41 seat: Feb 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Lindenhurst man who was knocked off the ballot in three school board races last week has filed to be a write-in candidate in one of those districts.
  

   
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  Lake County candidate knocked off three ballotsJan 31, 2013 12:00 AM
  James Creighton Mitchell Jr., a perennial Republican candidate from Lindenhurst who had intended to run for seats on four government boards in April, can't do so because of potential conflicts of interest, officials have ruled. He will remain on the ballot for the Lake Villa Public Library District board. “I'm disappointed that this was an oversight on my part,” he said.
  

   

• Lake Park: Both questions must pass to build pool Jan 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  If voters give mixed signals on the building of a new swimming pool for Lake Park High School, the school has formally vowed not to proceed with the project. Two questions will appear on the April 9 ballot — one authorizing the school district to borrow $8 million to build the pool and another to increase taxes to cover the estimated $380,000 needed annually to maintain it. If one fails, the project will be dropped, scool officials say.
  

   
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  18-year-old Arlington Hts. park board candidate thrown off ballot Jan 25, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Buffalo Grove High School student has been thrown off the ballot for Arlington Heights Park District Board, making the April election an uncontested race, according to the Cook County Clerk's office. The Cook County electoral board ruled on Thursday afternoon in favor of the objectors.
  

   

• State Sen. Brady to speak in Schaumburg Jan 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Illinois State Senator and 2010 gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady will be the first speaker at a new monthly series presented by the Schaumburg Township Republican Organization entitled, "Meet Your Next Governor."
  

   
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  Beyonce, Katy Perry star at packed inauguration Jan 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  President Barack Obama's inauguration is shaping up to be an event as star-studded as any red carpet, with dozens of heavy hitters lining up to perform — and the promise of a few key surprises to liven up the weekend.
  

   

• Vote by mail in Lake County Jan 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Registered voters, students away at school, and traveling snowbirds who live in North Chicago, Waukegan and Waukegan Township can vote by mail in the Feb. 26 Consolidated Primary Election.
  

   

• 5 Carol Stream library candidates stay on ballot Jan 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  Five candidates slated by the Support the Library group will stay on the April 9 ballot in a contentious Carol Stream library board race, despite objections to their nominating petitions. The objections were filed by Elaine Wierdak, a former circulation desk clerk and coordinator at the library, who argued in a lawsuit that her employment was wrongfully terminated in April 2009.
  

   
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  Republican Party seems as divided, angry as ever Jan 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  The GOP's internal struggles to figure out what it wants to be were painfully exposed after Mitt Romney's loss to President Barack Obama on Nov. 6, but they have exploded in recent days.
  

   

• ECC board race attracts political newcomers Jan 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  Six people filed for three open seats on the Elgin Community College board of trustees. Rise Jones, who was recently appointed to fill John Dalton's seat, will try to maintain her position and trustee Clare Ollayos will push for re-election against a diverse pool of challengers. Two 6-year seats are up for election as is one 4-year seat — the remainder of Dalton's term, which he cut short after being elected as a judge in November.
  

   

• N. Barrington trustee says contentment reduced candidatesDec 29, 2012 12:00 AM
  Despite the return of controversial retail development plans for the 108-acre Dimucci property nearby, at least one North Barrington trustee interprets the general lack of candidate interest in the April 9 village board election as contentment among residents. "On the face of it, it's disappointing, but things have been on an even keel," said Trustee E. Peter Boland, who's been on and off the board over the past two decades.
  

   
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  Florida’s Crist may run again Dec 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  Now that former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist is a Democrat, pretty much everyone in Florida's political world expects him to seek his old job."I will consider it, and I will think about it," Crist said Saturday evening.
  

   
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  Boustany will return to Congress Dec 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  Louisiana congressman Charles Boustany has won a fifth term by handily defeating his Republican colleague, Jeff Landry, in a runoff election.
  

   
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  Veteran member leaving Mount Prospect park board Dec 5, 2012 12:00 AM
  Gary Grouwinkel, a veteran presence on the Mount Prospect Park District board, has decided not to run for a fourth term. "I've had my day," Grouwinkel said Wednesday.
  

   
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  Romney’s loss creates GOP leadership vacuum Dec 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  The GOP was in disarray following its 2006 showing, searching for a new path and leader at a time when President George W. Bush was deeply unpopular. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 presidential nominee, briefly assumed control of a party that he long had criticized, but it never really warmed to him.
  

   
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  District 200 considering tax increase to replace early childhood center Nov 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 officials are reviewing figures for a potential referendum question in April to finance a new Jefferson Early Childhood Center. The existing building, which serves the district's youngest learners, has remained largely untouched since it opened in 1958 at 130 N. Hazelton Ave., Wheaton. School board members have not yet determined the fate of Jefferson, but plan to decide Jan. 9 whether to put a referendum question on the April 9 ballot.
  

   

• Editorial: The case against municipal primaries Nov 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Primary elections for some municipal races are costly and winnow out relatively few candidates before the April 9 general election. It's time to get rid of the municipal primaries, a Daily Herald editorial says.