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Election detail

2026 Cook County and Chicago General Election

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Nov 3, 2026 | Cook County

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Election at a glance

Cook County

Nov 3, 2026 | 1 contest in this record

Registration deadline

Oct 6, 2026

Early voting

Sep 24, 2026

Contests

1

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Reliability

Election source confidence

Source reliability

Strong (74/100)

Strong election record using cached official-source coverage, backed by 2 official sources out of 2.

Fallback: cached official sourceConflict: no conflictFreshness: stale

2 official sources out of 2 total · Updated 108 days ago

Last verified Jul 3, 2026

The attached source trail is stale and should be refreshed before this record is treated as current.

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Chicago School Board

School Board

Seats available: 1

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How to read these candidate records

Registered campaign is not the same as ballot-qualified.

Candidate lists here keep campaign registration, filing, certification, and ballot status separate. Use the contest pages for the exact status labels such as Registered campaign and Certified.