Elections Happening in IL
Every office on upcoming Chicago & Illinois ballots — citywide, all 50 wards, the CPS Board, and Police District Councils — with candidates as they're confirmed from official sources. govbot docs · GitHub repo
🗓️ Election calendar
The full timeline for each upcoming ballot — from candidate filing to Election Day. Each race below also has its own timeline.
≈ expected dates follow the statutory election calendar — confirm the exact day with the official source; fixed dates (like Election Day) are shown without the tag.
🏛️ The rules of the game — from Springfield
Illinois laws & bills that set how these elections work — the elected CPS board and its 2026–27 transition, ward & runoff rules, campaign-finance limits, school governance. This is context beside the races, not a candidate list. Pulled from govbot's Illinois legislation dataset (tagged elections & voting or education) and cross-referenced with upcoming ILGA committee hearings.
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📂 Where the data comes from
This site isn't the official clerk — it's a cabinet that puts the sources in one place so a Chicagoan can ask "who's running in my CPS subdistrict and my ward, and when do I vote?" A fully assembled race draws on up to five drawers: map · candidates · money · results · context. Here's what each source owns and what's live today.
🗳️ Candidates & city results live · candidates · results ready
City candidate filings, early-vote sites, precinct/ward maps — and per-race vote results, which attach automatically on Election Night.
chicagoelections.gov ↗🏫 State & CPS candidates live
Statewide + CPS board candidate lists ("Who Is Running") and official campaign-money files.
elections.il.gov ↗📜 Rules of the game live · above
Illinois bills & ILGA hearings about the rules — see the Springfield panel above.
govbot-data/il-legislation ↗💵 Campaign money live · when a committee matches
Each candidate's receipts, spending & cash on hand from their SBE committee's latest D2 filing (attached only on a confident ID match).
SBE disclosure files ↗🏘️ Suburban Cook results planned
Suburban Cook results + turnout, after Election Night.
cookcountyclerkil.gov ↗🗺️ Maps live · ward + police
Ward & police-district boundaries draw a locator on each race (from the City Data Portal). CPS subdistrict polygons aren't published yet.
data.cityofchicago.org ↗History (not 2026–27): older, already-cleaned Chicago municipal results from DataMade's chicago-municipal-elections ↗.
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