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IL Primary Election: Chicago turnout low on final early voting day, DuPage Co. sees record numbers

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2 years ago

June 27, 2022

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IL Primary Election: Chicago turnout low on final early voting day, DuPage Co. sees record numbers

CHICAGO (WLS) — Tuesday is Election Day in Illinois.

Voters will choose the Republican, who will face Gov. JB Pritzker within the fall.

“Proper now, we’ve over 19,000 voters for early voting alone,” mentioned DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek. “DuPage acquired over 35,000 mail functions. That’s six occasions the variety of functions we acquired in 2018.”

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It isn’t sometimes an election with excessive voter turnout, however that’s not the case out in DuPage County, the place they’re already seeing report numbers. To assist make issues simpler, DuPage County has a model new voting system.

“That voting system is an entire on-demand voting system, the place ballots are printed proper there on the polling place, so as a result of we’ve this new voting system, voters can vote anyplace tomorrow,” Kaczmarek mentioned.

To date, voter turnout has been low in Chicago. Nonetheless, the numbers should not removed from the 2018 Gubernatorial Election.

“We simply acquired previous 98,000 ballots,” mentioned Max Bever of the Chicago Board of Elections. “We’re nonetheless someplace in between the Gubernatorial Election of 2018 and 2014. We’re just a little bit nearer to 2018, so that’s making us really feel hopeful.”

And that’s the hottest race on the poll. Within the state’s gubernatorial race, Pritzker is the incumbent and Darren Bailey is proving to be a powerful contender, choosing up the endorsement from former President Donald Trump over the weekend.

RELATED | Early voting expands to 50 Chicago ward websites, however turnout stays low

However the query stays whether or not voters will end up Tuesday.

With the Supreme Courtroom announcement overturning Roe v. Wade final Friday, some voters mentioned that inspired them to make their vote rely.

“I am a white man in my 60s, so the choice most likely has the least impact on me,” mentioned Terry Herdzina, an early voter. “But it surely upset me so dangerous, so I do know that these individuals which might be most affected by it, I can think about how they really feel.”

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2 women found dead in Englewood home after fire, Chicago fire officials say

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2 years ago

November 22, 2022

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2 women found dead in Englewood home after fire, Chicago fire officials say

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 3:26AM

FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.

The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.

The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.

After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.

It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.

The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.

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3 women united by Highland Park shooting now lobby for assault weapon ban

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2 years ago

November 22, 2022

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3 women united by Highland Park shooting now lobby for assault weapon ban

HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.

As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.

“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”

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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”

“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”

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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.

“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”

However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.

Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.

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Biden to extend student loan repayment freeze as relief program is tied up in courts

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November 22, 2022

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Biden to extend student loan repayment freeze as relief program is tied up in courts

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 8:52PM

WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.

The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.

The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.

However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.

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