UpdatedTue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:36 pm CT
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The polls in Lake County and Suburban Cook County opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday and closed at 7 p.m. (Google Maps)
BUFFALO GROVE, IL Four-year seats on a village board or city council are highly coveted in local political circles. In Buffalo Grove, five candidates were vying for three of these seats Tuesday in a race involving three incumbents and two challengers.
Polls officially closed at 7 p.m. Results are starting to trickle in as the Lake County and Cook County Clerk s Offices tally up the vote totals.
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Through April 3, residents were able to early vote at 16 sites in Lake County. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
BUFFALO GROVE, IL Election Day is upon us. The polls in Lake County and Suburban Cook County open at 6 a.m. Tuesday and will remain so until 7 p.m. Election officials say that if you re in line by 7, you will be able to vote no matter how long the line is.
Buffalo Grove voters will weigh in on two contested races with Village Board and a Board of Education race.
BUFFALO VILLAGE BOARD (OPPOSED)
Ahead of the April 6 consolidated municipal elections, Buffalo Grove Patch provided questionnaires to all candidates on the ballot. See links below for our candidate questionnaires.
Scheduled federal executions infuriate activists
By Gloria Rubac posted on December 9, 2020
Members of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement protested Trump’s eighth execution since July at the Mickey Leland Federal Building in downtown Houston on November 19. In this photo are Trey Legall, Leonard Benton, Andre Ross, Gloria Rubac and Leonard Walker. Many passers-by honked in support and gave thumbs-up approval.
The outrage expressed by anti-death penalty activists was visceral as the news came out that Trump had authorized the federal government to use a firing squad, the electric chair, or a gas chamber for upcoming federal executions.
Ozell Brandley, the brother of Clarence Brandley, who spent 10 years on Texas death row before finally being found innocent, told WW: “A pardon for convicted administration members but death by firing squad for Blacks, Hispanics and minorities! Double standards in the criminal justice system and the White House!”