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The City of Chicago spent ONE MILLION dollars to draw the 36th Ward like this
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Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
defeats Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
and becomes the next mayor of Chicago. Johnson won Black voters and northside liberals. Johnson also won Latino areas in Little Village and Pilsen.
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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They should rename the ward as the 65th ward. The only thing that makes sense about it is the 65 Grand bus
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Illinois Amendment 1 PASSES, which enshrines the right to collective bargaining in the Illinois Constitution. While the amendment did not get 60% of the amendment question vote, it met the other legal requirement to get more than 50% of total ballots cast in the election.
#twill
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THEY ARE LOOTING PORTILLO'S
@portilloshotdog
AND WALGREENS. I CALLED 911, BUT NO POLICE AT ALL! Hundreds of looters
@Chicago_Police
#ChicagoScanner
#chicagoriots
#looting
#chicago
@CWBChicago
@Chicago_Scanner
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Kanye
@kanyewest
joins Chance
@chancetherapper
onstage at the United Center to talk about Jesus
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In a rebuke of Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, the Chicago City Council voted to renew ShotSpotter. in a 33 to 14 vote. The mayor vowed to veto the ordinance. The Black caucus rebelled against the mayor, while the most progressive members of the city council stuck with the mayor.
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With updated results, Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
wins the 36th Ward. Johnson defeats Paul Vallas in the Chicago mayor election. Johnson wins every Black majority ward & he wins northside liberal wards. Johnson wins 6 Latino majority wards
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
and Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
made history by defeating Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
and advancing to an April runoff. Vallas and Johnson split the northside, with Lightfoot winning Black areas.
#chimayor23
#twill
#ElectionTwitter
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The Chicago referendum on increasing the real estate transfer tax on properties over $1 million AKA Bring Chicago Home failed, with 54% No votes. The referendum failed in high-income and Latino wards, and passed in liberal white and Black wards.
#twill
#BringChicagoHome
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I'm almost certain that Brandon Johnson will be the next mayor of Chicago at this point.
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Chicago mayor election results will be certified tomorrow. Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
Johnson convincingly defeated Paul Vallas by almost 30,000 votes and 4.3% with a coalition of minority voters and liberals. Final precinct results map.
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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The Matrix director Lilly Wachowski
@lilly_wachowski
donates $1,000 to Brandon Johnson's
@Brandon4Chicago
campaign for mayor of Chicago
#chimayor23
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Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
is now heavily favored to win the Cook County State's Attorney race. 95% of the Cook County suburbs and 80% of the city are now reporting and she is up by 19,095 votes.
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The Cook County Clerk is now reporting 100% of precinct results. Countywide, Eileen O'Neill Burke
@EileenCookCnty
leads Clayton Harris III
@ClaytonforCook
by 1,637 votes for Cook County States Attorney. Provisional ballots will be counted later today.
#electiontwitter
#twill
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Unless I am missing something, I believe Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
wins. I just do not see how Harris can overcome 1,643 votes with so few outstanding votes at this point. Eileen Burke is the next Cook County States Attorney.
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My big takeaways on why Brandon Johnson won big:
-> Johnson won Black precincts 80%+
-> Johnson did well w/ Latinos, winning Little Village and Pilsen
-> Johnson won big with lakefront liberals, winning the 44th Ward
-> Johnson won big margins in liberal areas like Logan Square
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With 1,086 of 1,291 Chicago precincts reporting, 84.12%, I am calling the runoff as Paul Vallas vs Brandon Johnson. Lori Lightfoot is defeated, she is behind 18,000 votes and cannot make that up.
#electiontwitter
#chimayor23
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🚨 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 11,626 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 2,015 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 2,756 votes. Clayton won 62% of the votes counted.
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Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
defeats Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
and becomes the next mayor of Chicago. Johnson won every Black majority ward and he won northside liberal wards. Johnson also won 5 Latino majority wards. Results by city ward.
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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I was on NBC Chicago talking about the historically close states attorney election! Thanks for all the support everyone gives me here, it helps me do cool things like this!
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Eileen O'Neill Burke
@EileenCookCnty
currently leads Clayton Harris III
@ClaytonforCook
by 9,452 votes for Cook County States Attorney. She leads in the Cook County suburbs, but trails in Chicago. Here is the map of precinct results in Chicago.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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Mary Ann Ahern
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
is covering the story that most Chicago journalists aren't ready to report: Lori Lightfoot is not in a position to make the runoff. Chuy and Vallas have much stronger bases of support to advance to a runoff. What wards do Lightfoot actually win?
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The Chicago mayor runoff election was hard to forecast because the polls were off. However, IZQ
@izqstrategies
polled the race exactly right. When mail is counted, Brandon Johnson will win by around 5%, just as IZQ polled the race! I have to give
@lgsanchezconde
a shout out!
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🚨 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 2,286 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 1,643 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 262 votes. Clayton won 56% of the votes counted.
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@HeatherCherone
@wttw
Now everyone report this to the CPS Ethics officer Jennifer L. Chan, as advised by CPS for a situation *exactly* like this
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With all precincts now reporting, Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
defeats Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
and becomes the next mayor of Chicago. Johnson won Black voters and northside liberals. Johnson also won Latino areas in Little Village & Pilsen.
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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🚨 I got the Chicago vote by mail file from yesterday. There are *100,305* outstanding mail ballots as of end of day yesterday. These ballots will NOT be counted tonight in the vote count. We may not know the results of the election tonight...
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92.5% of precincts are reporting for the Chicago mayor runoff election. Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
is leading Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
by 1.4% and 7,179 votes. 510,009 votes reported. Brandon Johnson wins!
Brandon Johnson 50.7%
Paul Vallas 49.3%
#chimayor23
#twill
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Chicago is a city that is growing or shrinking, depending on which neighborhood. The downtown area is booming, with downtown wards increasing by 10% to 26%! However, the southside is depopulating, with Englewood based wards depopulating 11% to 13%.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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Eileen O'Neill Burke just declared victory and I agree. Burke wins. Today was the last day of any meaningful tabulation of votes, and Burke is up by 1,556 votes. It's over.
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77,285 early and mail votes in the Chicago mayor runoff election
#chimayor23
as of Sunday. Turnout is favoring Paul Vallas.
Top wards:
1) 19th: 4795
2) 41st: 3824
3) 45th: 2748
4) 11th: 2637
5) 13h: 2448
6) 38th: 2411
7) 47th: 2339
8) 39th: 2201
9) 43rd: 2124
10) 21st: 1916
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With 100% precincts reporting, the Chicago referendum on increasing the real estate transfer tax on properties over $1 million (Bring Chicago Home) failed, with 52% No. The referendum mimicked the precinct results of the Johnson vs Vallas race, with turnout winning it for "No."
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After speaking with the election authorities, here are the outstanding votes in the Cook County States Attorney race:
CHICAGO:
~2500 mail ballots to be counted today
1991 provisional ballots later
SUBURBS
~2800 mail ballots to be counted today
~200 provisional ballots later
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Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
convincingly defeated Paul Vallas by 26,448 votes & 4.3% with a coalition of minority voters & liberals to become the next mayor of Chicago. Precinct results with stratified colors to show precinct vote margins.
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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Chuy García
@ChuyChicago
leads first round vote for Chicago mayor by 7%, beats Lightfoot by 31% in head to head poll. Chuy is the clear favorite. Poll conducted by
@Local150
#twill
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🚨 New Chicago mayor
#chimayor23
poll by WBEZ, Sun-Times, NBC 5, Telemundo
#twill
Chuy Garcia
@ChuyChicago
20%
Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
18%
Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
17%
Willie Wilson
@DrWillieWilson
12%
Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
11%
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🚨 The Cook County Clerk just added 2,966 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 1,905 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 110 votes. Clayton won 52% of the votes counted.
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Based on my understanding on the outstanding votes, I believe Burke wins in the end, but it is crazy for a Cook County-wide election to be decide by a 1000-ish votes. And remember kids, we still have provisional ballots to count.
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Illinois Democrats released a much improved congressional map that is a solid 14D-3R map with an *OPEN LATINO DISTRICT* based in Cook and DuPage counties! Congressmembers Sean Casten and Marie Newman are now together in the 6th Congressional district.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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With more ballots counted, Lake and Fulton counties have now voted "YES" to Illinois Amendment 1, which enshrines the right to collective bargaining into the state constitution. The Amendment passes with 53% "yes" votes of total ballots cast
#twill
#electiontwitter
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Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
and Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
made history by defeating Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
and advancing to an April runoff. Vallas and Johnson split the northside, and Lightfoot won Black areas. (correcting a map code error).
#twill
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This is a special tweet for city hall people. Here is George Blakemore singing and dancing.
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Chicago is preparing for unrest... a lot of heavy duty city trucks on Michigan Avenue
#ChicagoScanner
@CWBChicago
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For the Chicago mayor runoff election, I believe, based on yet to be received mail ballots, Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
would have to lead Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
by at least 18,000 votes with nearly all precincts reporting to declare victory tonight.
#chimayor23
#twill
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I have gotten many calls from friends about my appearance on Breaking Points with Krystal
@krystalball
& Saagar
@esaagar
, talking about the Chicago mayors election results. Thank you for having me on, your show has a huge following with my friends!
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Illinois population growth/decline by state house district. Population growth on the northside of Chicago, the outer suburbs (especially Fox River Valley), and some college towns. Population decline in Chicago west and southsides, downstate, and Rockford.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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What do you all think of my ward ratings for the 2023 Chicago mayor runoff election between Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas? I wanted to make a map with no tossups, but the 27th Ward I believe is a true tossup. I am open to criticism if you think I rated a ward wrong!
#chimayor23
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Next week Chicago will vote on a real estate transfer tax referendum AKA "Bring Chicago Home." The referendum would increase fees for properties sold over $1 million, and decrease fees sold for less. This is how Chicago voted on the 2020 state progressive income tax referendum.
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My initial state house ratings for the new Illinois legislative map. No tossups, all the districts have a clear partisan advantage. 5 incumbent Republicans are now in districts that were all won by Clinton, Duckworth, Pritzker, Kwame Raoul, and Biden.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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🚨 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 9,387 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 4,771 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 2,015 votes. Clayton won 61% of the votes counted.
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@EileenCookCnty
Burke won. Why? Assuming there are 3500 more ballots (nursing home & provisional) Harris would need to win *79%* of the votes. Why 79%? Because for the last city batch, only 83% of the ballots voted in the Democratic states attorney election.
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It was worth the drive! I decided at the last minute to take the day off work and drive to Terre Haute, Indiana. I shot this with a Canon T6i.
#Eclipse2024
#EclipseSolar2024
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City of Chicago 2020 Official Census Population by Race
White: 863622 (31%)
Latino: 819518 (30%)
Black: 787551 (29%)
Asian: 189857 (7%)
Native: 3332
Pacific Islander: 529
Other: 11536
Two or More Races: 70443
#twill
#2020census
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
@JBPritzker
just donated $90 million to his reelection campaign
#electionTwitter
@JMilesColeman
@Redistrict
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#2020Census
: 50 Biggest Illinois cities
1. Chicago: 2,746,388📈
2. Aurora: 180,542📉
3. Joliet: 150,362📈
4. Naperville: 149,540📈
5. Rockford: 148,655📉
6. Elgin: 114,797📈
7. Springfield: 114,394📉
8. Peoria: 113,150📉
9. Waukegan: 89,321📈
10. Champaign: 88,302📈
#twill
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Graciela Guzman
@graciela4senate
ousted appointed State Senator Natalie Toro in the Logan Square based 20th Illinois Senate District. Guzman's dominant win over Toro was a big win for progressive unions and organizations against the Democratic "establishment."
#twill
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🚨 NEW Chicago mayor poll
#chimayor23
by Northwestern University Center for the Study of Diversity & Democracy
@CSDDatNU
&
@BSPresearch
Paul Vallas 19%
Chuy Garcia 17%
Lori Lightfoot 14%
Willie Wilson 12%
Brandon Johnson 9%
N: 643
Feb 5-10
E: +/- 3.8%
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@EileenCookCnty
@ClaytonforCook
🗳 The Cook County Clerk just added 155 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 1609 votes. Burke increased the margin by 11 votes. Burke won 54% of the votes counted.
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#2020Census
: 10 Biggest Illinois cities
Chicago: 2,746,388 ⬆️2%
Aurora: 180,542 ⬇️9%
Joliet: 150,362 ⬆️2%
Naperville: 149,540 ⬆️6%
Rockford: 148,655 ⬇️3%
Elgin: 114,797 ⬆️6%
Springfield: 114,394 ⬇️2%
Peoria: 113,150 ⬇️2%
Waukegan: 89,321 ⬆️1%
Champaign: 88,302 ⬆️9%
#twill
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This is a map of the new Illinois state house districts, as passed last night by the Illinois legislature.
#twill
#ElectionTwitter
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Iris Martinez had the worst election night in Chicago. She lost to Mariyana Spyropoulos for Cook County Circuit Clerk, and she also lost her home 33rd Ward Democratic Committeeperson seat to Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez
@RossanaFor33
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🚨 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 11,074 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 6,786 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 1,366 votes. Good news for Burke.
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I have received the updated vote by mail file from the Chicago Board of Elections for the runoff election. There are currently 91,367 outstanding mail ballots. These ballots will not be counted in the vote totals tonight and will be counted in the days after the election.
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With 93% of precincts reporting Brandon Johnson is leading by 7,149 votes over Paul Vallas! Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
wins!
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With the results officially being proclaimed today, Eileen O'Neill Burke
@EileenCookCnty
defeated Clayton Harris by 1,571 votes to become the Democratic nominee for Cook County States Attorney. Burke's strong performance in the suburbs overcame Clayton's margin in Chicago.
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I'm calling my first race of the night. Mariyana Spyropoulos
@m_spyropoulos
defeats Iris Martinez and will be the next Cook County Clerk of Court.
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Illinois State House Democrats gained 5 seats under Speaker Welch
@ChrisWelch_JD
, now controlling 66% of the chamber. Democrats picked up seats in the suburbs of Chicago, and a seat in Bloomington-Normal. Republicans picked up a Metro East seat.
#twill
#ElectionTwitter
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Updated precinct vote totals:
@PaulVallas
&
@Brandon4Chicago
defeat Chicago Mayor
@LoriLightfoot
& advance to a runoff. Mail votes are breaking heavily towards Brandon Johnson, who has won 27 more precincts since election night reporting
#chimayor23
#twill
#ElectionTwitter
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Congratulations to the newly elected Democratic Party of Illinois Chair Robin Kelly
@RobinLynneKelly
!!! 🥳🎈
Final vote:
Robin Kelly
@RobinLynneKelly
52%
Michelle Harris
@AldermanHarris
48%
#twill
#electiontwitter
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With 2177,268 votes in, Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
is 20,708 votes over Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
in the race for Cook County States Attorney. Burke is in a very good position to win.
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The ward where Chicago mayor candidates live:
Ja'mal Green: 19th Ward
Sophia King: 4th Ward
Kam Buckner: 3rd Ward
Willie Wilson: 42nd Ward
Brandon Johnson: 29th Ward
Paul Vallas: 11th Ward
Lori Lightfoot: 35th Ward
Rod Sawyer: 6th Ward
Chuy Garcia: 22th Ward
#twill
#chimayor23
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Cook County Judge Jackie Portman-Brown, a self proclaimed "lock-'em-up judge," loses retention after a "scared straight" situation went wrong when she put a 6 year old in a jail cell. She has been suspended from judge duties since 2018
#twill
#electiontwitter
#cookcountyjudicial
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🗳 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 406 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 1598 votes. Harris closed the margin by 2 votes. Harris won 50% of the votes counted.
#twill
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Pauk Vallas
@PaulVallas
with a HUGE local celebrity endorsement!
PETER FRANCIS GERACI
@PeterFGeraciLaw
#chimayor23
#twill
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@EileenCookCnty
@ClaytonforCook
The Cook County Clerk just reported 5,907 more suburban votes for the Cook County States Attorney race. Eileen Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 8,213 votes. Clayton closed the margin by 27 votes. This is looking very good for Burke
#twill
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With final results by ward, Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
defeated Paul Vallas by 26,448 votes & 4.3% in the Chicago mayor election. Johnson won every Black majority ward & he won northside liberal wards. Johnson won 6 Latino majority wards
#chimayor23
#electiontwitter
#twill
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Chicago Mayor Candidate Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
raised $1.9 million last quarter, spent $600k, and ended the quarter with $1.3 million. He raised an additional $400k yesterday from a union. With $1.8 million, he has more money now than Lori Lightfoot.
#twill
#chimayor23
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38th Ward Alderman Nicholas Sposato endorses Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
for mayor of Chicago
#ChiMayor23
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Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx
@KimFoxxforSA
cruises to reelection after a dustup over the Jussie Smollett controversy. Foxx, a Democrat, dominated the Chicago vote, winning 64%. She was weaker in the suburbs, winning only 44%.
#ElectionTwitter
#twill
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@EileenCookCnty
@ClaytonforCook
Clayton Harris
@ClaytonforCook
won 56% of the first batch of mail counted by the Chicago Board of Election. And 15% of mail ballots did not vote in the Democratic states attorney election. That rate is too low to overcome Eileen Burke's
@EileenCookCnty
lead.
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Illinois Democrats flipped an Illinois state senate seat in the Quad Cities and Republicans flipped two seats, in suburban DuPage County and the Metro East. Republicans netted one seat, but Democrats have a supermajority with 68% of the state senate seats.
#twill
#electiontwitter
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Campaign money raised by Chicago mayor
#chimayor23
candidates since January 1st: 💰
Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
: $2.4M
Chuy Garcia
@ChuyChicago
: $829K
Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
: $751K
Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
: $739K
Sophia King
@aldsophiaking
: $123K
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This is what the Chicago Rules committee wants the new 34th Ward to look like
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🔥 2020 Census just dropped! 🔥
City of Chicago 2020 Official Census Population: 2,746,388
#twill
#2020census
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These highlighted precincts voted for Chuy Garcia in the February election. For the April election, the more progressive areas of Humboldt Park & Pilsen voted for Brandon Johnson. Chuy's home base of Little Village also voted for Johnson. More conservative areas voted for Vallas.
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With all Chicago precincts now reporting, Paul Vallas
@PaulVallas
& Brandon Johnson
@Brandon4Chicago
defeated Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
& advanced to a runoff. Vallas & Johnson split the northside, Lightfoot won Black wards.
#chimayor23
#twill
#ElectionTwitter
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Following the passage of the new Illinois congressional map, Marie Newman
@Marie4Congress
announced that she will run against Sean Casten
@VoteCasten
in the new 6th District. Newman's current district makes up 41% of the 6th district, while Casten's district comprises 23%.
#twill
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The Chicago Board of Elections is now reporting 100% of precinct results. Here is a map of *Chicago only* since suburban precinct data is not yet available. Countywide, Burke
@EileenCookCnty
leads Harris
@ClaytonforCook
by 8,152 votes for Cook County States Attorney.
#twill
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@EileenCookCnty
@ClaytonforCook
🗳 The Chicago Board of Elections just added 2,102 votes for the Cook County State's Attorney election. Eileen O'Neill Burke
@EileenCookCnty
now leads Clayton Harris III
@ClaytonforCook
by 1,637 votes. Burke increased the margin by 28 votes. Burke won 51% of the votes counted.
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