Early voting begins today across Illinois
PEORIA (WEEK) -- Early voting started on January 14th for consolidated primary elections on February 23rd.
The city of Peoria primary will have the mayor, treasurer and city council races. Peoria Township has a race for supervisor on the ballot. There are five candidates running for mayor, so this election narrow it down to two people for the April 6th election.
Peoria County Election Commissioner, Thomas Bride, said sometimes these local elections come down to one vote.
"Local races really have a bigger effect on a day to day basis than than a presidential probably or even your congressional races, I always tell people if you look at your tax bill everything on there you're voting for in will be affected by this primary in April," said Bride.