Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough said Tuesday that her office secured a court order to allow 40 suburban polling places to remain open an extra hour, until 8 p.m.
And in Chicago, city election officials say they plan to go to court to keep about six polling locations open an hour later after some sites opened late Tuesday.
In the suburbs, the Cook County clerk extended voting for an hour — from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. — because of polling place changes and late openings.
The 40 suburban sites are scattered across Barrington, Berwyn, Bremen Township, Elk Grove Village, Leyden Township, Lyons, Maine Township, New Trier Township, Niles, Orland Township, Palos Township, Proviso Township, Stickney, Schaumburg, Thornton Township, Wheeling and Worth.
Jim Allen, spokesman for the city’s Board of Election Commissioners, said the city may have to go to court on as few as three locations and he expects the decision to be made within the next few hours
“We typically go to court during the 5 or 6 p.m. hour, we workout well in advance of Election Day that we may be needing their services on Election Day so that no matter what the situation might be we’re able to resolve that quickly,” Allen said.
