Voter registration across the state is up slightly from the March primary, but down more than 5 percent from the 1988 November presidential election, the State Board of Elections said Monday.
Overall, more than 6.03 million people are registered to vote in next week`s general election, an increase of 15,862, or less than 1 percent, from the 6.014 million registered to vote in the March 20 primary, board officials said.
But the total also is down 326,117, or 5.1 percent, from the November 1988 presidential voter registration of 6.357 million, the board said.
![Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ctc-VHR5442_183545767.jpg?w=525 "Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]")
