For What It's Worth

The inaugural induction ceremony for the newly-formed Order of Themis, the Hellenic Judges Association, will take place on Wednesday, July...

For Part 1 of this survey, see this post which looks at turnout numbers as a whole and results in countywide races for the Circuit and Appe...

Part 1 The Chicago Board of Elections reports that there are 1,498,813 registered voters in our fair city. I know for a fact that this fi...

The Cook County Clerk did publish am Official List of Write-In Candidates for Suburban Cook County. None were candidates for any judicial...

With 86.38% of the available votes counted, Timothy W. Wright III is holding a 4,000-vote lead over his nearest rival in the four-person rac...

CapitolFax.com is linking to the Tribune tonight for election returns. And here's a screen grab from the Tribune showing Judge Eliza...

Unless you live in the far northwest corner of Cook County, if you took a Republican ballot today, you had no one to vote for in either Appe...

Chicago Ald. Howard B. Brookins, Jr. has a margin of barely 100 votes over Lisa Michelle Taylor in suburban returns in the race for the coun...

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'...

Stephen Swedlow is besting Jennifer Bae by better than 5,000 votes in the race for the Lipscomb vacancy in the 8th Subcircuit. Swedlow seem...

The margin is over 3,000 votes in the suburban returns. But there are more City than suburban precincts in the 7th and her margin is only a...

It turns out that the endorsement of the Mayor of Riverside was not decisive in the race for the Rogers vacancy. Shawnte Raines-Welch, the...

Associate Judge Kerrie Maloney Laytin leads by a wide margin in the race for the Vega vacancy in the 6th Subcircuit. Judge Sanjay Tailor is...

Bernadette Barrett has coasted to victory in her bid for a 15th Subcircuit vacancy. I hope I've learned my lesson about VBM so I won...

In both City and suburban returns. Michael Weaver is also leading in his three-way race. So... preliminarily... party slating accounts s...

Judges Debra B. Walker and Raymond W. Mitchell seem comfortably ahead in surprisingly complete returns reported by City and County election ...

As they used to say in the 60s, if you don't vote, you can't complain. I bought my ticket. And I'm sure you did as well. ...

Bumped up for greater visibility Updated June 23, 2022 This is the interactive, voter-friendly part of FWIW. What follows is a list of e...

About Judge Gudino, certainly. But about much more than Judge Gudino as well. Let us assume -- indeed, let us stipulate -- that the facts...

Diana López is a candidate for the countywide Gordon Cannon vacancy. Her punch number is 167. I am Judge Diana López and I am one of th...

This batch came out last evening. I'll be updating the individual Organizing the Data posts with this new information. But there are...

The last weekend of early voting is almost here and "In-Person Voting Day" (as I've seen it called elsewhere on the Intertubes...

The American Middle East Voters Alliance Political Action Committee ( AMVOTE PAC ) has issued endorsements in several Cook County judicial r...

Thirty-second Ward Ald. and Committeeperson Scott Waguespack has released an email detailing his endorsements (including his endorsements in...

Araceli De La Cruz is a candidate for the countywide O'Brien vacancy. Her punch number is 182. Hello readers, thank you for your eng...

Timothy W. Wright, III is a candidate for the Shelley vacancy in the 5th Subcircuit. His punch number is 193. I am Timothy W. Wright II...

Updated June 23, 2022 Candidates are listed in the order that they appear on the ballot in the Democratic primary; no Republican filed for...

Updated June 23, 2022 This is the only judicial vacancy in Cook County in which both Republican and Democratic candidates filed. In this ...