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Resources for early voters looking to make informed choices about judges on...
Cook County judges seeking retention in 2018Limited early voting is already underway for the November election, and the opportunities and locations for early voting will expand considerably on October...
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IVI-IPO says no to three retention judges
The Independent Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization has recommended a "no" vote for three Cook County judges seeking retention on the November ballot. Singled out for a "no" vote by...
View ArticleTribune announces choices for retention ballot, contested subcircuit seats
I begin, as I almost always seem to do when talking about the Tribune, with a complaint.In yesterday's editorial announcing its preferences on Cook County judges seeking retention this November, the...
View ArticleISBA narratives on retention judges now available
The Illinois State Bar Association has found all but three of the 59 Cook County Circuit Court judges seeking retention to be "qualified" for retention.The ISBA's complete report on retention...
View ArticleISBA releases explanations of its ratings in contested subcircuit elections
Voters in the far north-suburban 12th Subcircuit and far south-suburban 15th Subcircuit will have a say in the election of one judge each. Voters in the far northwest suburban 13th Subcircuit will have...
View ArticleWho Sits Where -- 2018 isn't over and we're already looking at 2020
While voters are still trying to figure out who's on the November ballot, wannabe candidates, their confidants, and their consultants are already looking ahead to 2020.So what are they looking at?What...
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Advocates Society Judges' Night this Thursday, October 18
The Advocates Society will hold its Annual Judges' Night this Thursday, October 18, from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m., at the Polish Museum of America, 984 North Milwaukee Avenue.Each year the Advocates Society...
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Injustice Watch offers useful tool for retention voters
Injustice Watch has a nifty Voters' Guide for persons looking for more information about Cook County Circuit Court judges on this year's retention ballot. Here is a link to that guide.Injustice Watch...
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Updated Alliance retention grids
Not all the Alliance bar groups have yet spoken (as you will see) but some of the blanks have been filled in since our last post on the 'grids' issued by the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial...
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The Suburban Bar Coalition offers its ratings of Cook County retention...
Click on any image below to enlarge or clarify. The preview images look fuzzy to me, with or without my glasses, and they may likewise appear fuzzy for you, but that is a reflection of my technological...
View ArticleJudge William Hooks referred to anger-management counseling, reassigned to...
In a press release issued yesterday evening, Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans announced that the Executive Committee of the Circuit Court of Cook County has relieved Judge William...
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Cook County Bar Association recommends "yes" vote on all but three Cook...
The Cook County Bar Association has released recommendations for judicial candidates seeking retention in the November election.The CCBA is recommending a "yes" vote for Supreme Court Justice Anne M....
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Almost complete: The Alliance issues updated grids on Cook County judicial...
With just a couple of exceptions, all the ratings from the members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening are in now for Cook County jurists seeking retention this November.Herewith...
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Further updating Alliance retention grids
Really careful readers may have noticed the discrepancies between the Cook County Bar Association retention judge ratings announced earlier this week and the CCBA ratings shown in the last set of...
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BallotReady compiles information regarding judicial candidates
The Chicago Tribune recently touted BallotReady as a resource for voters trying to make sense of the Cook County judicial ballot.From the main screen (that's a snippet of the home page, above) a voter...
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Alliance issues grids with all the blanks filled in
The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening has today issued updated 'grids' for the Cook County judicial retention election. What follows are the most up to date, complete grids (click to...
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Updated: Resource for Cook County voters looking to make informed choices in...
Cook County judges seeking retention in 2018As we head into the last few days of early voting and look forward to Election Day on Tuesday (hallelujah! the commercials will finally stop... at least for...
View ArticleOnly City numbers are posted so far... but Coghlan in trouble in early returns
Judge Matthew E. Coghlan, abandoned by the Democratic Party in his retention bid, the focus of a very vocal Coalition to Dump Matt Coghlan, seems to be in serious trouble in early returns. With 28.61%...
View ArticleOK... Clerk's website is showing results on the Suburban Summary Report
But not yet on the online results page.Judge Matthew Coghlan has only 55% 'yes' votes -- but, again, these are early, early results, with only about 5.4% of the votes counted.It looks like we'll have...
View ArticleAll retention judges seem likely to survive -- except Coghlan
The numbers are starting to stack up now.With 61% of the City vote counted, Judge Matthew E. Coghlan has 'yes' votes from only 50.44% of the voters. In the suburbs, with just over 40% of the votes...
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