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Here's a Look at What's on Local Ballots on November 3

  • Date Posted
    October 14, 2026
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School districts throughout Illinois are seeking approval from voters on referendums on the November 3 general election ballot. Items up for a vote include bonds, tax increases, countywide sales tax questions, a high school deactivation, and multiple advisory questions.

School districts known to be placing local bond issues before voters include:

  • Chadwick-Milledgeville CUSD 399, $12.37 million, to create a secured entrance, new gymnasium, and an expanded early childhood and career and technical education programming space.
  • Champaign CUSD 4, $192 million, to build or renovate numerous middle school, academy, and elementary buildings throughout the district.
  • CUSD 300 (Algonquin), $355.5 million, to build and equip additions to school buildings, including but not limited to secured entryways, safety and security measures, and additional classrooms.
  • DuPage HSD 88, $118 million, to improve, alter, repair, and equip school buildings and facilities to improve ADA compliance, and perform energy-efficiency improvements.
  • East Maine SD 63, $120.6 million, to build, repair, and equip buildings to update roofing, energy efficiency, security, and accessibility.
  • Evergreen Park ESD 124, $68 million, to build and equip a new building to replace Central Middle School.
  • Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3, $84 million, to build and equip a new Junior High building.
  • Oswego CUSD 308, $317 million, to alter, repair, and equip existing school buildings, including installation of secured entryways, enhanced cameras, and repairs to facilities.
  • St. Charles CUSD 303, $282.5 million, to improve the sites of, build and equip additions to, and alter and repair school buildings and facilities, not limited to ADA compliance, safety and security improvements, and athletic facilities.
  • Teutopolis CUSD 50, $15 million, to alter, build, repair, and equip the grade school building.
  • THSD 214 (Arlington Heights), $295 million, to alter, repair, and equip school buildings, including security measures, ADA compliance, STEAM classrooms, and renovate instructional spaces.
  • Waltham CCSD 185, $7.53 million, to build and equip an addition to the school building, including construction of new classrooms.
  • Westmont CUSD 201, $68 million, to build and equip a new elementary building, replacing two current buildings, including creating playground space, additional parking, and drop-off zones.
  • Winchester CUSD 1, $8.5 million, to alter, repair, and equip existing school buildings, including construction of a gymnasium.
  • Yorkville CUSD 115, $159 million, to build and equip two school buildings.

School districts placing tax increases on the ballot include Elmwood CUSD 322, Lemont-Bromberek SD 113A, Palos Heights SD 128, Prospect Heights SD 23, Richland SD 88A, Sandwich CUSD 430, SD 45 (Villa Park), Thomasboro CCSD 130, and Troy CCSD 30C.

There are four Countywide Sales Tax propositions on the ballot. Voters will decide on a countywide 1% sales tax increase for school facilities, school resource officers, and mental health professionals in Adams, Crawford, Lake, and Tazewell counties.

Voters in La Moille CUSD 303 will vote on a nonbinding question about deactivation of the district’s high school and negotiating enrollment agreements with one or more neighboring high school districts.

Voters in the following districts will decide whether school board members should be elected at-large or by congressional township.

  • Argenta-Oreana CUSD 1
  • Beardstown CUSD 15
  • Cambridge CUSD 227
  • Central CUSD 4 (Ashkum)
  • Elverado CUSD 196
  • Heyworth CUSD 4
  • Mendon CUSD 4
  • Neoga CUSD 3
  • Orion CUSD 223
  • Rockridge CUSD 300
  • Winchester CUSD 1

Voters in the Chicago Public Schools district will also vote on two advisory questions:

  • Should the City of Chicago require owners of long-term vacant or undeveloped commercial or investment properties to pay an additional annual charge that would support Chicago Public Schools?
  • Shall Illinois adopt the Millionaire Amendment for Property Tax Relief and Education, which would enact a 3% income tax surcharge only on millionaires and use 50% of this new revenue to provide property tax relief for residential and commercial taxpayers and 50% to improve state funding for public education?

IASB will report results of school referenda after the November 3 general election. To see historical information from past elections, visit the Finance Election data page on the IASB website.