THE LATEST FROM THE ILLINOIS GREEN PARTY
Statement from Anna Schiefelbein, Candidate for Illinois State House, IL-85
July 19, 2022 As many of you know, I collected 1,353 signature petitions as a Green Party candidate for the State House, District 85 race and was 147 signatures shy of the 1,500 requirement to file. The signatures I collected were more than three times the number of...
Chicago Tribune: Berwyn voters endorse concept of ranked choice voting, an electoral method some call the future of democracy. Evanston might soon do it for real.
Chicago Tribune John Keilman July 1, 2020 Originally Published at https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-ranked-choice-voting-ballots-election-berwyn-evanston-20220701-onobe3i7bnbulp3x7hptwygpoy-story.html The ranked choice voting item on Berwyn Township...
Green MWRD Slate On the Ballot!
The Illinois Green Party's 2022 slate for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District will be on the ballot in the November 2022 General Election after no challenges to their signatures were submitted. Green candidates for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District,...
Green MWRD Candidates Submit Signatures to Get on November Ballot
Green candidates for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Toneal Jackson and Mark Buettner, filed their petitions to get on the ballot for the 2022 General Election on Monday (3/14/22). The MWRD, which occupies most of Cook County, plus a few townships...
ILGP Opposes HB5589: Nuclear Moratorium Repeal
In line with our platform, which calls for an energy future that is “carbon-free and nuclear-free,” the Illinois Green Party opposes HB5589, which would repeal the moratorium on new nuclear reactor construction in Illinois. HB5589 was introduced on January 28 by...
Call to Action! Help the Green MWRD Slate Get on the Ballot!
Like all candidates in Illinois, we are required to collect signatures in order to get on the ballot. Usually for Greens this means collecting between 5 and 25 times more signatures than their recognized party counter parts. Luckily, our past runs for MWRD (over a...
ILGP Joins Calls for #NoWarWithRussia
The Illinois Green Party Coordinating Committee has approved signing on to Popular Resistance's No War with Russia Open Letter. (Text of the letter below.) Stop the War with Russia over Ukraine! We must act now to stop the war with Russia over Ukraine, a war that...
Petition: End “No Knock” Warrants in Sangamon County!
No knock warrants have long been a point of contention and a common theme in calls for police reform. Despite this, approximately 20,000 no knock raids are performed in the United States every year. The unannounced entry of heavily armed law enforcement presents a...
Join the Green Wave and Help Petition for Change!
The Illinois Green Party holds an established party status in the The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) and is currently gathering petitions for ballot access. Cook County Green Party and Illinois Green Party Recognized Candidates for...
Illinois Green Party Supports the Chicago Teachers Union
The Illinois Green Party wholeheartedly supports the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in its struggle with the Chicago Public Schools over in-person learning and school safety. The CTU, naturally, is taking a stand to help protect its members from contracting the...