Last minute efforts to get voters to the polls were underway on several fronts Friday, with the Illinois primary election just four days away.
ByA Chicago Votes parade led Chicago Public Schools students to early voting polls Friday amid the "Bring Chicago Home" tax referendum debate.
"I feel very excited," Hubbard High School student Angel Madrigal said. "I think it matters and it's important to vote.", with the effort starting with a congressional candidate forum hosted earlier this week at the headquarters of the Chicago Teachers Union, a staunch advocate of Bring Chicago Home.
"Here are hundreds of students who don't have a house," La Casa Norte Student Ambassador Diana Trevino said. "We need to bring important cause to this because there's people on the streets every day. We just pass by them. It is very important that everybody has their own house." Bring Chicago Home was not officially part of the "go to the polls" event, but the campaign was clearly hoping to win support from young voters sympathetic to the cause.IL Supreme Court denies appeal of counting votes for controversial Bring Chicago Home referendum
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