Close races in the 9th and 11th Subcircuits?

Barry Goldberg has a just-better-than 400 vote margin in City returns in his bid for the Jacobius vacancy in the 9th Subcircuit, but he's ahead by better than 4,500 votes in the suburbs. It looks like this is going to be a tough gap for any of the other three candidates to close.

This 9th Subcircuit race is closer than the other one, where Judge Sanjay Tailor is cruising to a win, but it may not be all that close.

A close race does appear to have occurred in the 11th Subcircuit, where Chicago Ald. Chris Taliaferro has about a 400 vote margin over Aileen Bhandari in City returns (with 98.48% of the available votes counted) but about an 1,800 vote deficit in the suburbs. VBM may well be decisive in this race.