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Live updates: Pritzker wins Illinois governor race; Harold concedes to Raoul in attorney general contest
By Chicago Tribune staffContact Reporter
With most polls closed in Illinois, voters now know who their next governor is and are waiting to learn the results of other statewide races. Nationally, every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and a third of U.S. Senate seats were on the ballot. The Tribune is live-blogging Election results in Illinois, below, continuing until well after polls close.
Read more about the vote in Illinois on the Tribune election page.
View our updating photo gallery of Chicago-area voters explaining why theyre casting their ballots today. The Tribunes live coverage of elections outside of Illinois is here.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/elections/ct-met-illinois-election-day-live-updates-20181106-story.html
question everything
(52,398 posts)Bfd
(1,406 posts)Yaa!
bigtree
(94,672 posts)...way to go Illinois!
Glamrock
(12,003 posts)Aa an ex resident...it does me heart good! Fuck that asshole! Besides Walker and that moron in Kansas, worse governor evah!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)D Sean Casten beating R incumbent Peter Roskam
D Dirksen Londrigan beating R incumbent Davis
D Underwood beating R incumbent Hultgren
Plus D Kwame Raoul beat R Erica Harold for IL AG
frazzled
(18,402 posts)JBs running mate
Cha
(320,568 posts)Happy for you and Illinois and the Planet!
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