On Tuesday, polling places will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. across the state. Those in line at 7 p.m. are still allowed to fill out their ballots.
In Chicago, 51 polling stations established throughout the city for early voting will be open on Tuesday for people to vote regardless of where they live in Chicago. In addition, precinct voting locations will be opened for voters who are assigned to vote there.
This is the first primary day in Illinois to occur this late in the year since at least the Great Depression. Weather is predicted to be mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid-80s throughout the state, with low humidity — a notable improvement to the usual primary date of mid-March. This year’s primary was pushed back due to delays in the release of federal census figures used to redraw the state’s political boundaries.
That’s shy of the 449,749 early votes and vote-by-mail ballots returned in the 2018 midterm primary but nearly double the 202,020 early votes and mail ballots cast in 2014. Statewide voter turnout in the 2018 primary was 26.5%, Dietrich said, while 18.1% of registered voters turned out in the 2014 primary.