It wasn't even 10 a.m. and election site manager Jeff Cohen, 44, had barely had a second to take a break from his poll watching duties at
Highland Park High School since the doors opened at 6 a.m.
He
said the voter turnout this year feels much heavier than the last
presidential election, when he managed a polling place in Lake Forest.
“Normally, by now I’d have time to drink coffee, be sitting down, maybe read the
newspaper,” Cohen said. “I don’t think I’ve sat one minute the whole
time.”
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Chicago's northwest suburbs have a new representative in the U.S.
House tonight as Democrat Tammy Duckworth, perhaps best known for losing
her legs in the Iraq War and her work on veterans' issues, defeated Joe
Walsh, a Tea Party icon and now one-term Congressman. 
A confident Tammy Duckworth voted at around 10:00 a.m. at the massive
Willow Creek Church complex in Barrington. Duckworth is trying to
unseat controversial Congressman Joe Walsh, a Tea Party favorite, in one
of the most high-profile and expensive congressional races in the
nation in a redrawn 8th district.
If tomorrow’s six extremely close (see recent polls 