On Nov. 8, Illinois voters will solid a poll on a state constitutional modification, each statewide constitutional workplace, each seat within the Basic Meeting and, in 12 counties, a spot on the state’s Supreme Court docket.  

Forward of Election Day, the Capitol Information Illinois workforce has – independently or in collaboration with newspaper editors throughout the state – been engaged on candidate interviews and coverage discussions with these operating for a number of the state’s most distinguished places of work.

The aim of this voter’s information is to hyperlink readers to our protection of these races, by means of written protection of these occasions and varied podcast and movies we and others have printed with candidate interviews.

Because of the variety of seats up for grabs within the Basic Meeting, we won’t be specializing in particular person Home and Senate races – we propose choosing up a neighborhood newspaper or visiting native information websites for that protection. However we’ll cowl the governor, comptroller, treasurer, secretary of state and legal professional basic races, in addition to the constitutional modification and two Supreme Court docket races.

Early and mail voting have already begun in Illinois, so we’re going reside with this information with protection of a number of the races that we’ve already printed, and we’ll replace this doc with hyperlinks to our protection of the statewide 2022 races as we close to Nov. 8. 

For extra details about voting, together with how you can request a mail-in poll, the place to solid an in-person poll, and what races are on the poll, you’ll be able to go to your native election authority. You’ll find data for all native election officers on the Illinois State Board of Elections web site. Data on how you can register could be discovered right here.

All podcasts under will also be discovered on most podcast apps by looking Capitol Information Illinois.

Governor’s Race

Gov. JB Pritzker is dealing with off in opposition to state Sen. Darren Bailey, a Republican farmer from downstate Xenia. The candidates’ views diverge extensively on nearly each subject, from abortion to state spending to pandemic response to addressing gun crime.

CNI Bureau Chief Jerry Nowicki sat on a panel organized by the Illinois Related Press Media Editors that included the 2 major-party governor candidates and reporters from the Arlington Heights Day by day Herald and the Springfield State Journal-Register. The Libertarian candidate is Scott Schluter.

A video of that panel could be discovered right here.

A podcast model of the video is right here or on most podcast apps.  

And Nowicki’s protection of the dialogue is right here.

Comptroller’s Race

In Illinois, the place of chief fiscal officer is that of comptroller.

Democrat Susana Mendoza has been elected to that publish twice, for a partial time period starting in December 2016 earlier than gaining reelection in 2018. She touts the discount of a $16 billion invoice backlog to a typical 30-day billing cycle, the state’s largest-ever $1 billion steadiness in its rainy-day fund and a pension cost that went $500 million past statutory ranges within the present fiscal 12 months as a few of her biggest accomplishments.

Her opponent, Shannon Teresi, is a newcomer to state politics and is presently the McHenry County auditor. It’s an expertise, she mentioned, that may assist her root out “waste, fraud and abuse” in state authorities – one in all her most-repeated causes for operating.

Every major-party candidate participated in a Zoom interview with the CNI workforce. The Libertarian candidate is Deirdre McCloskey.

Peter Hancock’s protection of these discussions is right here.

The dialog with Mendoza could be discovered right here and on most podcast apps.

The dialog with Teresi could be discovered right here.

Treasurer’s Race

The race for treasurer – the state’s chief funding officer – pits two-term incumbent Michael Frerichs in opposition to Republican Tom Demmer, a deputy minority chief within the Basic Meeting and Home GOP level particular person on finances points. The Libertarian candidate is Preston Nelson.

Frerichs touts greater than $1 billion in funding good points as his biggest achievement whereas emphasizing his administrative work on unclaimed property, a state school financial savings plan and different applications overseen by the workplace.

Demmer has targeted his race on being a statewide examine on Democratic energy with regards to tax and finances points, ceaselessly attacking Frerichs for a remark he made in 2020 concerning a proposed graduated earnings tax modification: “One factor a progressive tax would do is clarify you’ll be able to have graduated charges if you end up taxing retirement earnings. And, I feel that’s one thing that’s price dialogue,” Frerichs is quoted as saying within the Day by day Herald.

The treasurer, in the meantime, has no formal function in setting tax coverage and Frerichs has ceaselessly acknowledged he doesn’t assist a retirement tax.

That’s all lined in Nowicki’s story on the race right here.

You possibly can hearken to the Frerichs podcast right here.

You possibly can hearken to Demmer’s interview right here.  

Secretary of State’s Race

Former state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and state Rep. Dan Brady every have an extended listing of initiatives they wish to implement to modernize the secretary of state’s workplace. They’re vying to switch Jesse White, the retiring secretary of state who has held the publish since 1999.

Whereas Giannoulias has White’s endorsement, the outgoing secretary has additionally spoken extremely of Brady. And Brady has the endorsement of Republican former governor and secretary of state Jim Edgar.

Every major-party candidate spent about 45 minutes speaking with Nowicki and Patrick Keck of the Springfield State Journal-Register, answering questions on coverage, politics and their monetary {and professional} backgrounds. The Libertarian candidate is Jon Stewart.

Here’s a hyperlink to Nowicki’s full story on the discussions, together with video hyperlinks.

And here’s a sidebar story protecting a number of the different positions mentioned.

The Brady video is accessible by way of our podcast right here.

The Giannoulias podcast could be discovered right here.

Lawyer Basic’s Race

Democratic Lawyer Basic Kwame Raoul and Republican personal observe legal professional Thomas DeVore differ starkly on a lot of points, with the AG’s response to COVID-19 government orders main that listing.

DeVore was a frequent challenger of the governor’s government order authority all through the pandemic, whereas Raoul defended that authority in court docket. Nevertheless it’s not the one difficulty on which the pair differed.

In an hourlong dialogue with the IAPME, DeVore defended his use of the personal lawsuit to go after people, together with the governor and a particular schooling instructor, who he believes have defamed him. Raoul, in the meantime, mentioned it’s a waste of court docket sources. Additionally they mentioned the SAFE-T Act legal justice reform and whether or not the AG must be prosecuting public officers. The Libertarian candidate on the poll is Dan Robin. 

Peter Hancock’s protection of the discussion board is right here.

A video could be discovered right here.

And a corresponding podcast is right here.

Constitutional Modification 1

Voters will determine on whether or not the state’s structure shall be amended to offer a proper to staff to unionize. The IAPME hosted a discussion board with one proponent and one opponent on that difficulty. The complete textual content of the modification is as follows:

SECTION 25. WORKERS’ RIGHTS

 (a) Workers shall have the basic proper to prepare and to discount collectively by means of representatives of their very own selecting for the aim of negotiating wages, hours, and dealing circumstances, and to guard their financial welfare and security at work. No regulation shall be handed that interferes with, negates, or diminishes the fitting of workers to prepare and discount collectively over their wages, hours, and different phrases and circumstances of employment and work place security, together with any regulation or ordinance that prohibits the execution or software of agreements between employers and labor organizations that symbolize workers requiring membership in a company as a situation of employment.

(b) The provisions of this Part are controlling over these of Part 6 of Article VII.

Hancock’s protection of that discussion board is right here.

And you’ll view the video right here.

A podcast of the dialogue is right here.

Supreme Court docket 3^rd District

Within the third Judicial District, incumbent Michael J. Burke is looking for to take care of a spot on the excessive court docket in opposition to Justice Mary Kay O’Brien. Whereas this and the 2nd District race might reverse the partisan majority of the court docket if each Republicans win their races, Burke and O’Brien every informed us in separate podcast interviews that they don’t consider partisanship is one thing they contemplate when ruling on a case.

They every touched on a variety of points, from their expertise on the court docket to how the court docket can enhance its administrative features to whether or not they’ve made errors on the bench.

You possibly can learn Peter Hancock’s protection of the race right here.

And hearken to the podcast with Burke right here.

And hearken to the O’Brien interview right here.

Supreme Court docket 2^nd District

Within the 2^nd District, longtime Choose Elizabeth “Liz” Rochford, a Democrat, is dealing with former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran, a latest Republican U.S. Senate candidate who has by no means served as a choose.

They’re vying for a 10-year time period on the Supreme Court docket in a seat which incorporates DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lake and McHenry counties. It’s one of many state’s seven Supreme Court docket seats. Three of them are from District 1, which is Prepare dinner County, whereas 4 different geographic districts throughout the remainder of Illinois every have one seat.

You possibly can learn Jerry Nowicki’s protection of that race right here.

And hearken to the Curran podcast right here.

The Rochford podcast could be discovered right here.