Polls closed Tuesday evening in Chicago’s first school board elections, where 10 local races have high stakes for Mayor Brandon Johnson and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union. Though they began as sleepy provincial contests,

If voters could handle the long lines at some polling places on this Election Day, the rest of the voting process was mostly smooth in Chicago and suburban Cook County.

Election judges work at the DANK Haus German American Cultural Center on Election Day Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Despite the rainy weather, Chicago voters hit the polls on Tuesday to decide a series of key national and local races, including the U.S. presi ...