Start here for the most complete information about every 2024 Cook County judicial race

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This is the interactive, voter-friendly part of FWIW. What follows is a list of every Cook County judicial vacancy on the March primary ballot. Voters may be surprised to note how many are uncontested.

Please note that unless otherwise indicated (with the phrase "November election contest") all of the persons running in uncontested races are as good as elected already (and in recognition of this fact, the Supreme Court has given several of these persons -- those not already serving on the bench by appointment -- a head start on their judicial careers). There are no Republican candidates except in those few subcircuit races where a November election contest is indicated. There are no Republican judicial candidates seeking any countywide vacancies, on any Cook County court. There are no Republican primary contests at all. The following is not a partisan statement; it is merely a statement of fact: In the March 19 primary, in order to have any say in who serves in our local courts, one has to take a Democratic ballot.

Of course, not all races are uncontested. These are the ones voters should be looking for. All the contested races in the list below are live links. When you click on any of these, you'll be taken to a post that will show all the candidates in that race, in ballot order, with all ratings and other information about each candidate that I've been able to assemble. Where a candidate has provided FWIW with a statement "in their own words", a link to that statement will be available from that post as well.

There is a link at the bottom of each of these Organizing the Data posts, so voters can examine each contested race in detail, one candidate at a time, and come right back here.

The linked posts will be updated as new information becomes available, right up until the polls close next Tuesday. This post will be at or near the top of FWIW until then.

And now the list:

Supreme Court - Burke Vacancy

Appellate Court - Connors Vacancy (uncontested)
Appellate Court - Cunningham Vacancy
Appellate Court - Delort Vacancy
Appellate Court - O'Neill Burke Vacancy (uncontested)

Countywide - Flannery, Jr. Vacancy
Countywide - Gaughan Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Haberkorn Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Hubbard Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Maras Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Mitchell Vacancy
Countywide - Murphy Vacancy
Countywide - Propes Vacancy
Countywide - Raines Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Sullivan Vacancy (uncontested)
Countywide - Walker Vacancy (uncontested)

3rd Subcircuit - Brosnahan Vacancy
3rd Subcircuit - Harmening Vacancy (uncontested)

4th Subcircuit - Felice Vacancy (uncontested)
4th Subcircuit - King Vacancy (uncontested)
4th Subcircuit - Maloney Vacancy (uncontensted)

5th Subcircuit - Lewis Vacancy (uncontested)

7th Subcircuit - Solganick Vacancy

8th Subcircuit - Collins-Dole Vacancy (uncontested)

10th Subcircuit - McWilliams Vacancy (uncontested)
10th Subcircuit - Wojkowski Vacancy

11th Subcircuit - Collins Vacancy (uncontested)
11th Subcircuit - Daleao Vacancy

12th Subcircuit - Dickler Vacancy (uncontested)(November election contest)
12th Subcircuit - Quinn Vacancy (uncontested)(November election contest)
12th Subcircuit - Schleifer Vacancy (uncontested)(November election contest)

13th Subcircuit - Betar, III Vacancy (uncontested)
13th Subcircuit - Steffen Vacancy (uncontested)

14th Subcircuit - O'Hara Vacancy
14th Subcircuit - Pierce Vacancy (uncontested)

15th Subcircuit - Demacopoulos Vacancy
15th Subcircuit - Toomin Vacancy (uncontested)

16th Subcircuit - Converted from Flood Vacancy (uncontested)
16th Subcircuit - Converted from Griffin Jr. Vacancy (uncontested)

17th Subcircuit - Converted from Aguilar Vacancy (uncontested)
17th Subcircuit - Converted from Flaherty Vacancy (uncontested)

18th Subcircuit - Converted from Gottainer Edidin Vacancy
18th Subcircuit - Converted from Linn Vacancy (uncontested)(November election contest)

19th Subcircuit - Converted from Senechalle Jr. Vacancy

20th Subcircuit - Converted from Budzinski Vacancy