{"id":529897,"date":"2026-03-18T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:09","slug":"live-results-for-illinois-primary-elections-as-2026-voting-winds-down-and-polls-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529897\/","title":{"rendered":"Live results for Illinois primary elections as 2026 voting winds down and polls close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Lightfoot and Demmer said they are closely watching the crowded race to replace Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/illinois-9th-congressional-district-2026-primary-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9th Congressional District<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hotly contested, lots of money poured in, both pro and against certain candidates,&#8221; Lightfoot said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Demmer said he thinks it could be the night&#8217;s upset race, with Kat Abughazaleh surging as primary day neared despite Daniel Biss leading in polls for most of the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Candidates who can really galvanize supporters overperform,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal campaign finance records show Abughazaleh, who just moved to Illinois in 2024, raised more than $3.3 million for her campaign, with most of her donations coming from people who gave $200 or less, and most of those contributions coming from outside Illinois. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fine raised more than $2.5 million, with most of that money coming from outside Illinois, from donors who gave $1,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p>Biss raised more than $2.3 million, with nearly $2 million of that coming from Illinois donors, and most of his donations coming from people who gave $2,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew raised more than $1.3 million, Amiwala raised more than $1.1 million, and Huynh raised more than $1 million. No other candidate raised more than six figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Lightfoot and Demmer said they are closely watching the crowded race to replace Rep. Jan Schakowsky in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,13961,5629,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,8647],"class_list":["post-529897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-election","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}