Time to clear off the Page One Sidebar

Updated 6/11/25 to add website links from November election....

OK... long past time.

But actual voters looking to decide which Cook County judicial candidates to support in November will be showing up to FWIW in the coming weeks. They won't necessarily know that their opportunity to make actual choices in judicial elections ended, for the most part, with the March Democratic Primary.

FWIW will be the bearer of the bad news.

Meanwhile, we'll archive the 2024 primary websites here.

A lot of these are already... gone... repurposed... pointing now to foreign casinos or other questionable sites. Click at your own risk.

But... depending on how much the candidate paid for the site, some of these sites may still be functioning a year from now. Some candidates who weren't successful this time will update their campaign websites in 2026 and try again. Readers who are looking for ideas for their own possible campaign sites may wish to (carefully) click through the list below.

• Cecilia Abundis
• Loveleen Ahuja
• Deidre Baumann
• Sunil Bhave
• Lloyd James Brooks
• Jennifer Callahan
• Michael Chvatal
• Jeffrey G. Chrones
• Neil Cohen
• Arlene Coleman-Romero
• Audrey Victoria Cosgrove
• James "Jack" Costello
• Pablo deCastro
• Steve Demitro
• Debjani Desai
• Bridget Colleen Duignan
• Deidre Dyer
• John Abbrey Fairman
• Koula Fournier
• Philip Fowler
• Caroline Glennon-Goodman
• Dawn Gonzalez
• Russ Hartigan
• Dave Heilmann
• John Hock
• Sarah Johnson
• Liam Kelly
• Risa Renee Lanier
• Maria McCarthy
• James V. Murphy
• James Murphy-Agilú
• Paul A. O'Grady
• Lynn Palac
• Luciano "Lou" Panici, Jr.
• Nickolas Pappas
• Chloé Pedersen
• Kim Prezkota
• Chelsey Renece Robinson
• Lori Ann Roper
• Griselda Vega Samuel
• Yolanda Harris Sayre
• Mary Sevandal Cohen
• Owens J. Shelby
• Alon Stein
• Edward J. Underhill
• Lucy Vazquez-Gonzalez
• Allen Price Walker
• Nadine Wichern
• Wende Williams
• Michael J. Zink

November election websites:

• Frank Andreou
• James "Jack" Costello
• Pablo deCastro
• Tien H. Glaub
• John Hock
• Maria McCarthy
• Lynn Terese Palac
• Pamela Curran Smith
• Alon Stein
• Matthew Taylor

New subcircuit maps - Part 2 - Subcircuits 6-10

Updated August 18, 2023 to reflect inclusion of 6th Subcircuit map.

Continuing a look at the newly redrawn Cook County judicial subcircuits that began with this post on Page One.

Here is the map of the City-only 6th Subcircuit:

This is a map of the City portion of the new 7th Subcircuit:

This is a map of the County portion:

This is a map of the new, City-only 8th Subcircuit:

Here is the City portion of the new 9th Subcircuit:

This is the County portion of the 9th:

And, finally, for this post, here is the City portion of the new 10th Subcircuit:

This is the County portion:

For a look at the maps for Subcircuits 11-15, click here or just scroll down.

For a look at the maps for the new Subcircuits, Nos. 16-20, click here.

For a look at the new maps for Subcircuits 1-5, click here.

New subcircuit maps - Part 3 - Subcircuits 11-15

Continuing a look at the new Subcircuit maps that began with this post on Page One.

This is a map showing the City's portion of the new 11th Subcircuit:

This is a map showing the County portion of the 11th Subcircuit:

Just like its predecessor, the new 12th Subcircuit is entirely outside the City of Chicago:

The new 13th Subcircuit is also outside the City:

The new 14th Subcircuit, however, like the old 14th Subcircuit, is located entirely within the City limits:

Finally, for this post, here is the map of the new, all-suburban 15th Subcircuit:

For a look at the maps of the newly created Subcircuits, Nos. 16-20, click here or just scroll down.

For a look at the maps for Subcircuits 6-10, click here or just scroll up

And for a look at the maps showing the boundaries for new Subcircuits 1-5, click here. Yes, I know there's a link at the top of this post, but I've saved you the trouble of scrolling back now, haven't I?

New subcircuit maps - Part 4 - Subcircuits 16-20

This post concludes our look at the maps of the newly drawn Cook County Judicial Subcircuits, a look that began with this Page One post.

Here is a map of the City portion of the brand new 16th Subcircuit:

This is the suburban portion of the 16th Subcircuit:

Here is the map of the City portion of the new 17th Subcircuit:

And the suburban portion of the 17th:

The new 18th Subcircuit lies wholly outside the City:

The boundaries of the City portion of the 19th Subcircuit and those of the 19th Ward may not be exactly contiguous, but there is obvious overlap:

But there is an extensive suburban component to the 19th Subcircuit as well:

And, finally, here is the new, City-only 20th Subcircuit:

If you came to this post looking for maps for Subcircuits 6-10, click here. If you seek maps of Subcircuits 11-15, click here instead. For the new maps for Subcircuits 1-5, click here.

Cook County judicial wannabes may want to bookmark this one: County launches "Find My District App"

Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est, as Julius Caesar wrote, but the old Roman mapmakers did not have a patch on the cartographers of modern Cook County: They have managed (as FWIW readers well know) to divide all of Cook County into 20 judicial subcircuits.

Problem is, we don't yet have maps of the new subcircuits.

They're coming. They're just not here... yet.

Meanwhile, though, Cook County has launched a new, interactive map to help voters (and would-be judicial candidates) figure out all the various districts in which they live... including, obviously, their new subcircuit.

Here's the County's press release, issued yesterday:

President Preckwinkle has announced a new transparency and civic engagement initiative with the launch of “Find My District,” an interactive web map that shows a majority of the overlapping political districts of any address in Cook County, using public data provided by the County Clerk.

Visitors to the site can enter an address or point to a location on the map and find its districts as well as the district’s elected representatives and their contact information. Visitors can also use their phone or computer’s built-in GPS to find the information for their current location.

“Illinois has more units of local government than any other state in the nation,” said President Preckwinkle. “Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department created this interactive map to make it easier for residents to find and contact local officials and learn about their responsibilities.”

"The Clerk's Office is pleased to partner in this new interactive initiative that will help Cook County residents identify the government offices that serve their communities and provide them with the information that they need to contact their elected officials to make inquiries, access services, and make their voices heard," said Cook County Clerk Karen A. Yarbrough.

At the County level the app covers:

• Commissioner Districts
• Board of Review Districts
• Judicial Districts [meaning subcircuits -- all of Cook County is the First "Judicial District" -- ed.]

At the local level the app covers:

• School Districts
• Fire Protection Districts
• Library Taxing Districts
• Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts
• Municipalities
• Wards
• Political Townships

The app also covers:

• State Senate Districts
• State Representative Districts
• Congressional Districts

At some point, this app could be very useful for judicial wannabes -- but not yet. I checked.

The app says I'm still in the 10th Subcircuit -- which I have been since the Cook County subcircuits were first created -- but, under the new map, I believe I will be in the 11th. The app doesn't say that. Yet. It will.