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by Josh Kalven
6:57pm
Tue Mar 3, 2009

IL-5: Some Turnout Hints

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Between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m., we dropped in on some precincts across the 5th District and here's what we found:

Ward 38, Precinct 4: 49 votes (Old Irving Park)
Ward 41, Precinct 50: 96 votes (Jefferson Park)
Ward 45, Precinct 13: 92 votes (Jefferson Park)
Ward 44...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
3:43pm
Tue Mar 3, 2009
1 comment

IL-5: Quigley Throws A Flag In Melrose Park

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I dropped by Mike Quigley's campaign office about an hour ago, where the campaign was in the process of filing a complaint with Cook County Clerk regarding some rumored shenanigans in Melrose Park.  As Capitol Fax reported earlier, Mayor Ron Serpico apparently came out ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:10pm
Tue Mar 3, 2009

IL-5: Wheelan's Sigh Of Relief

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After all the anticipation, 5th
District congressional hopeful Charlie Wheelan is happy March 3 has
finally arrived. “I’m very excited that I don’t have to wake up and
give another speech today,” he tells me with a smirk.

That’s
not to say the University of ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
1:32pm
Tue Mar 3, 2009

IL-5: The Closeted Geoghegan Voter

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For 30 years, Wendy Jo Harmston has worked as an election judge in her Old Irving Park neighborhood, and never
has she been the first to cast a ballot—until today that is. Things
were off to such a slow start in the west side of the 5th District that
election judges in the ...

PI Original
by Progress Illinois
12:15pm
Tue Mar 3, 2009
1 comment

IL-5: Precinct-By-Precinct Turnout Goals

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The predictions for turnout in the 5th Congressional District special primary have generally fallen between 30,000 and 50,000 voters -- just a sliver of the over 600,000 residents of the district.  But what does that mean on the precinct-by-precinct level?  Given the fact ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:38am
Tue Mar 3, 2009
1 comment

IL-5: After A Cold Morning, Will Turnout Warm Up?

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The question isn’t whether turnout is going to be low in the 5th Congressional District primary today, it’s how low.  After all, this is a special election in cold weather several months after one of the most intense presidential elections of our lifetime.

At
about 8 a...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:09pm
Mon Mar 2, 2009
1 comment

IL-5: The Final Round-Up

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On the eve of the primary election, there's not a whole lot left to report.  We'll be on the ground in the 5th District tomorrow bringing you pictures, video, and updates throughout the day.  The polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.  If you live in the district and don't ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:58am
Mon Mar 2, 2009
15 comments

IL-5: Irrelevant Munitiae? Try Again.

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The Chicago Sun-Times’
Abdon Pallasch has a tough job. On a shrinking newsroom budget and with
marginal print space, he has to find a way to cover all the candidates
in the 5th Congressional District primary election. But his policy wrap-up from Sunday’s paper is not his ...

PI Original
by Progress Illinois
4:49pm
Sat Feb 28, 2009

IL-5: Trib Bucks Up Quigley, Geoghegan As The "Anti-Blago", Big Money Friday

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The latest from the race to replace Rahm ...

In the wake of Sara Feigenholtz's new ad criticizing instances in which Mike Quigley has aligned himself with Todd Stroger, the Tribune editorial board followed up on their previous endorsement with a weekend editorial ...