Get Ready to Vote: Your Polling Place Has Changed

It's Election Day!

Niles Patch will report election returns starting at 8 p.m. and interview the winning candidates. So check back often!

Here are a few things you need to know to vote:

1) For Niles voters in Precinct 59 who formerly cast ballots at Lone Tree Manor, your new polling place is Oasis Fun Center, 7877 N. Milwaukee Ave., Niles.

2) To check your registration and find your polling place, click here. Lists of polling locations by township and township maps of precincts are also available on the County Clerk’s website. Polls are open from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. 

Voter help lines:
(English) - 312.603.0906
(Spanish) - 312.603.6767 
(Chinese) - 312.603.6769
(Polish) - 312.603.6770
(For Voters with disabilities) - 312.603.0929
(For voters with hearing disabilities) - 312.603.0902
Legal hotline - 312.603.0236

And finally, to get into the election-day spirit, some election facts and figures courtesy of the County Clerk’s Office:

• Registered Voters: 1,395,756
• Grace-period registrants: 397
• Absentee ballot applications: 6,160*
• Precincts: 1,937
• Polling places: 1,210
• Election judges working on Election Day: 9,500
• College students applying to work Election Day: 890
• High school students applying to work Election Day: 700
• Contests: 716
• Candidates on ballot: 2,107
• Percent of races contested: 40 percent
• Referenda: 26
• Ballot styles: 794
• Townships in suburban Cook County: 30
• Municipalities in suburban Cook County: 129
  
  *Unofficial total as of Friday, April 1. 

Suburban Cook County Turnout, Recent Consolidated Elections

Election

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

Registered Voters

1,302,197

1,321,089

1,418,280

1,371,803

1,463,070

1,395,756

Turnout

377,595
(29.0%)

300,484
(22.7%)

382,587
(27.0%)

236,050
(17.2%)

304,766
(20.8%)

TBD