Illinois Called

FOX just called Illinois for Mc Cain, Flying Debris projects Illinois for Obama. Hey so does FOX.

Election Day Morning

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Wrightwood Ave. looking west from Lakewood Ave.

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West Lincoln Park polling place (right) on Lakewood Ave. looking north from Wrightwood Ave.

Chicago news crews on the vote! The polling place at Wrightwood and Lakewood always attracts a crowd of television trucks, this morning saw four of the five (when I walked by) local stations covering the vote from that apparently critical corner. The polling place is in a VFW hall. There are train tracks that run down Lakewood, they are used less often these days but as recently as two years ago the neighborhood could look forward to "Tuesday Train Day" when two and three car freight trains would crawl through the neighborhood.

VOTE Tuesday!

 Yep, the Illinois primary is Tuesday. I regret that I did not take a picture of the Hillary supporters who were at the Fullerton El stop this morning but I was running for a train. I was surprised to see Hillary supporters here on Chicago's north side, didn't they get the e-mail? Now if you have problems or questions concerning voting in Cook County (especially if you are on Chicago's North Shore) and who doesn't, head on over to the Wilmette blog, Publia likely has the info that you need. For a pre-ballot and ballot day Republican rundown go no further than the other great  Wilmette blogger (they have their own water works up in Wilmette, if that matters) the Backyard Conservative. 

 It looks like tomorrow the  Illinois Democrats will show the world a bit of self-deception, that a Chicago Democrat is an agent of "change". Maybe they are thinking of John "Quarters" Boyle.