It’s Election Day, Chicago — here’s what to know – Chicago Tribune

Good morning, Chicago.

Today is Election Day. In case you haven’t gone to the polls yet, here’s what to know before you vote. And if you’re voting in Chicago, find your new polling place.

Nearly half of city voters are heading to new polling places today. Voters across Illinois will elect their governor, junior U.S. senator and all 17 of Illinois’ representatives in the U.S. Congress, and will decide other key races and issues, which can be found in the Tribune’s voter guide.

From our Editorial Board, you can read all their endorsements and grab your scissors for The Tribune’s “bedsheet ballot.”

And we’ll begin tabulating live results tonight after the polls close. Bookmark chicagotribune.com/election-results and follow along.

Of course, elections aren’t just happening in Illinois — people are voting across the nation in the midterm elections. Here’s what to watch in Tuesday’s high-stakes midterms.

Another thing to watch today: the delayed $1.9 billion Powerball drawing. Here’s why it was delayed last night.

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A compressed election season that buffeted voters with tens of millions of dollars in largely negative ads ends Tuesday as voters go to the polls to decide contests from U.S. Senate, governor, statewide offices and every congressional and state legislative seat as well as a proposal to change the state’s constitution.

Election Day polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. with anyone in line at closing time still eligible to cast a ballot. The weather forecast for the Chicago area calls for partly sunny skies with highs in the upper 50s with light winds and no rain.

Jones College Prep students gathered for a sit-in Monday following controversy around a student who attended the school in a German military costume for Halloween and made gestures seen as antisemitic. The school’s lack of response to the incident prompted the protest, where students called for change in the school culture, saying administration has failed to properly address long-standing discrimination issues.

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Students packed the school’s lobby, with many others watching from the second floor. A few students held signs toward the windows facing the street, some of which read, “You can’t hide the truth” and “Can you hear us now?”

In Illinois, routine childhood vaccinations against diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough slipped during the pandemic — a drop that comes amid the reemergence of polio on the East Coast, and one that pediatricians blame on missed appointments and increased vaccine hesitancy.

About 89% of Illinois kindergartners were reported as vaccinated against measles, mumps, polio, rubella, chickenpox, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis during the 2020-2021 school year, according to Illinois State Board of Education data obtained by the Tribune through Freedom of Information Act requests.

The NBA is taking the day off Tuesday to remind citizens to vote.

It’s the first time the league specifically has avoided scheduling games on Election Day, a decision it said “came out of the NBA family’s focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections.”

These three shops are simply obsessed with the neighborhood slice shop, the kind of place where you can walk in and pick out a couple of slices, and then get on your way in a matter of minutes. Most of the time, that means the pizza is thin, cut into triangle slices and topped sparingly but forcefully with a few key ingredients.

All three of these have opened since the pandemic started, but they really couldn’t be more different from each other. Regardless, no matter where you fall on the New York vs. Chicago pizza debate, we are lucky to have them.