A few small changes have been made to this site's Sidebar

The 2022 candidate lists have been purged: All the unsucessful primary candidate websites have been removed, as have the websites of all successful candidates who face no opponent.

Get out your magnifying glasses, folks: The remaining list is very, very short. Because only in the far northwest suburban 13th Judicial Subcircuit is there any remaining judicial race for Cook County voters to decide.

When all the votes were counted in the race for the Democratic nomination for the Groebner vacancy in the 13th Subcircuit, Joe Gump edged out James "Jack" Costello by 161 votes, 11,789 to 11,628.

Gump, pictured at left, will face Republican nominee Gary William Seyring, shown below, in November.

So the new Sidebar candidate list is only two names long.

With the sole exception of this one race, people who didn't bother to vote in the Democratic primary in June were effectively denied the opportunity to participate in this year's Cook County judicial elections.