I Early Voted In Person In Suburban Cook County Illinois Today..... [View all]

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The polls were scheduled to open at 8:30am. I was in line at 8:05am and there were about 50 people ahead of me. As I waited in line there were about 50 people lined up behind me as well. The doors of the facility opened exactly at 8:30am. I made it into the facility at 9:03am and was signed up, voted and out of the facility at 9:21am.

While I was waiting in line a large number of people came to the facility to drop off their mail-in ballots.

When I left the facility the line was at least as long as it was when I arrived and people still coming. This facility will be open until 7pm tonight.

This was the first time I voted in Illinois that I had any kind of line or wait. I've always walked right in; signed up and voted.

I see this as a good sign that people are fired up and ready to vote and I'm going to predict that Illinois will have a record turn-out by the time voting is ended on the evening of Nov. 3rd.

I'm glad I decided to vote in-person and early vote.

Saturday I got my Senior Booster Flu shot and today I voted. I feel real exhilarated now.