November Referenda Results Mixed
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Date PostedNovember 11, 2026
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CategoryNews
Unofficial results from county clerk election websites show mixed results to referendum questions from the November 3, 2026, General Election ballot.
The numbers show voters approved 10 of 15 building bond requests. Bonds were approved for:
- Champaign CUSD 4, $192 million
- DuPage HSD 88, $118 million
- East Maine SD 63, $120.6 million
- Evergreen Park ESD 124, $68 million
- Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3, $84 million
- Oswego CUSD 308, $317 million
- Teutopolis CUSD 50, $15 million
- THSD 214 (Arlington Heights), $295 million
- Winchester CUSD 1, $8.5 million
- Yorkville CUSD 115, $159 million
Voters rejected bond requests in Chadwick-Milledgeville CUSD 399, CUSD 300 (Algonquin), St. Charles CUSD 303, Waltham CCSD 185, and Westmont CUSD 201.
Voters approved two of nine tax increases placed on the ballot, with Palos Heights SD 128 still too close to call as of November 10. Districts approving increases are Prospect Heights SD 23 and SD 45 (Villa Park). Increases were rejected in Elmwood CUSD 322, Lemont-Bromberek SD 113A, Richland SD 88A, Sandwich CUSD 430, Thomasboro CCSD 130, and Troy CCSD 30C.
All four Countywide Sales Tax propositions on the ballot were rejected. The 1% tax sales tax increase for school facilities, school resource officers, and mental health professionals was rejected in Adams, Crawford, Lake, and Tazewell counties.
Voters in La Moille CUSD 303 voted in the affirmative on the question to deactivate the district's high school and negotiate enrollment agreements with neighboring high school districts.
All but one district approved changing the way school board members are elected from congressional townships to at-large. It was approved by:
- 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
- Winchester CUSD 1
It was rejected in Rockridge CUSD 300.
Voters in the Chicago Public Schools district approved two advisory questions on the ballot:
- 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 update its finance election data once the results have been certified by the Illinois State Board of Elections.