Jan Schakowsky

Four congressional candidates running for seats serving the North, West and Northwest suburbs could be kept off the March 2024 primary ballot if formal complaints about their nominating petitions are upheld.

The list of candidates for next year’s elections began to take shape this week. On the ballot next year are countywide offices, two county-level judicial vacancies and seats on the McHenry County Board and in the Illinois House and Congress.

The last day of petition filing for Illinois’ March 2024 primary election has seen two hopefuls added to the list of congressional candidates seeking to serve the North, West or Northwest suburbs.

The first day of candidate filing for Illinois’ March 2024 primary election revealed potential interparty contests in five suburban congressional districts.

A Midway International Airport worker. A doctor who assists women with abortions. The head of a service for homeless individuals. All three are among guests invited by members of Illinois’ congressional delegation to attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

This November McHenry County voters weighed in on four of Illinois’ 18 congressional and one U.S. Senate race.

The race for Illinois governor won’t be the only one on Tuesday’s ballot. With the redrawing of the state’s political maps, the make-up of the entire McHenry County Board and both the U.S. and Illinois houses of representatives will be determined, along several other races.

In the 6th District, 11th District and 14th District, Republican challengers are trying to unseat Democratic incumbents. The races have been costly, with most of the campaigns raising and spending millions to share their messages with voters through TV ads and other means.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky's campaign fundraising total from the last three months is a fraction of what some other members of the Illinois delegation raked in -- but it still towers over what Max Rice, her Republican opponent in the 9th District, collected.

The League of Women Voters of Glenview-Glencoe will host a candidate forum for the U.S. Congressional District 9 race this Monday with Republican Max Rice and Democrat Jan Schakowsky.

Two congressional candidates whose filing paperwork had been formally challenged have dropped out of a pair of largely suburban races.

McHenry County has four new congressional districts that will take effect in the 2022 election, which means the county will have four new members of Congress following the election