Author: Rick Klau

Congrats to Joe Shannon, who the Tribune is declaring a victor in the 13th Congressional primary.

With 95% reporting in DuPage, there’s no question but that the 204 Referendum has passed. 2800 vote margin in Will County, and a 1300 vote margin (and counting) in DuPage. (Why I supported the referendum.) OUTSTANDING. Update: 100% of DuPage is in, 7170 yes, 6042 no. Which brings the final tally to: Yes: 14,223 (58.1%)No:…

With 66% 70% of the precincts in, the referendum just picked up another 500 800 votes. Current tally: Yes: 10,708 (59.3%)No: 7,357 (40.7%) And Cegelis and Duckworth were neck and neck for a bit, now Tammy has a 100+ vote lead in DuPage and a 300+ vote lead in Cook. Not a done deal by…

Will County’s results are in. 7,053 in favor of the referendum, 4,212 opposed. That’s a 2800 vote margin. In DuPage, 49% of the precincts are in, and it’s a dead heat: 2689 in favor, 2694 opposed. Without knowing which DuPage precincts are left, this is still very much in the air. But I prefer a…

Wow. Just 20 votes out of 12,000 separate Christine and Tammy in DuPage (with 48% reporting), and Tammy has just a 300 vote lead in Cook county with 43% reporting. Don’t know how the other precincts match up, but I think this is much, much closer than anyone predicted.

More info coming in: 30% of 204 precincts reporting: 550 vote margin, 58% to 42% Yes. Cegelis/Duckworth is a horse race: With 44% of the 6th District precincts reporting, Tammy’s at 4550 and Christine’s at 4440. 110 vote margin out of 11,000 cast. Wow. Much closer than I thought it would be. Shannon has an…

No more info from DuPage, but Will is now showing a 2500 vote margin in favor of the 3rd high school referendum in School District 204. Other Will results: Joe Shannon has a sizable lead over Bill Reedy, 58% to 42%. Nick Palmer’s effort at becoming the next state central committeeman for the 13th is…

Interesting. Last year’s referendum (which lost) passed by a narrow margin in Will County — just about 600 votes. So far, there’s a 2000 vote margin in favor of the referendum in Will; It failed in DuPage by about 1500 votes. With DuPage showing a slight bias in favor of the referendum so far, and…

Results as of 9:10pm: Will County: 83% precincts in, 5459 Yes, 3248 No.DuPage County: 15% precincts in, 817 Yes, 636 No. Total: 6276 Yes, 3884 No. (62% yes, 38% no)

Dupage Results hasn’t yet started reporting anything (could this be more fun with Diebold?), but Will County is reporting a bunch. With 25% of the precincts in District 204, it’s 2-1 in favor of the referendum so far. Shannon’s leading Reedy by about 15% in the race for Congress in the 13th District.