Suburban Cook County Early Voting Runs 30% Ahead of 2022 as Election Day Nears
Suburban Cook County voters are casting early ballots at a pace 30 percent ahead of the 2022 gubernatorial election, the Clerk's Office says, with 56 early voting sites open through Monday and Election Day set for Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Suburban Cook County voters are turning out early in numbers well ahead of the last gubernatorial cycle. With less than a week left before the Nov. 3 election, early voting in suburban Cook County was running 30 percent ahead of the pace set in the 2022 gubernatorial election, according to information from Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon's office published by The Lansing Journal.
Early voting is available at 56 locations throughout suburban Cook County through Monday, Nov. 2, and suburban voters may cast a ballot at any early voting location regardless of where they live. The six courthouse sites — in Rolling Meadows, Skokie, Bridgeview, Markham and Maywood, plus the Clerk's downtown office at 69 W. Washington St. in Chicago — are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., while municipal sites run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, polling places will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Clerk's Office directs voters to cookcountyclerk.com/VoterInfo to check their registration status, find their polling place, view a personalized sample ballot and track a mail ballot, with early voting hours and locations listed at cookcountyclerk.com/EVlocations.
