Alliance Grids - Take 3 - Countywide races

Some blanks remain in these updated Alliance 'grids,' but with early voting well underway, the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening has been kind enough to send me this latest draft. In this post, I reproduce the latest Alliance grids in the countywide races. A couple of posts on the subcircuit races will follow shortly.

You may need to refer back to these abbreviations from time to time as you review the "grids" put out by the Alliance representing the results of each group's investigation of each Cook County judicial candidate (those who were willing to submit their credentials for evaluation, anyway). You'll also need this key to understand the ratings issued by each Alliance member:

(For this, and for all the 'grids' that follow, click to enlarge or clarify -- depending on the device which you are using to view this post.)

The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area (AABA), Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), Hellenic Bar Association (HBA), Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois (PRBA), and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.