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By Muna Khan<\/strong>
\n9 a.m. CT Monday, Nov. 9, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

Election day has finally arrived.<\/p>\n

Millions headed to the polls across Illinois and rest of the United States this morning to choose between Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and the Republican candidate Donald Trump as their next president.<\/p>\n

Voters are also choosing in a variety of state and local races and referendums.
\n
\nThe battle in Illinois for the U.S. Senate seat between Democrat Tammy Duckworth and Republican Mark Kirk will be a closely watched one nationwide as Democrats seek to regain control of the Senate.<\/p>\n

Polls opened at 6 a.m. in Chicago and the suburbs and lines had already begun to form.<\/p>\n

According to the Chicago Board of Elections, a record<\/a> number of ballots had been cast in the city from the time early voting opened on Oct. 24. As of Sunday, 352,112 early ballots had been cast, topping the city\u2019s record from the 2008 election.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s early voting numbers surged this year, with votes from about 42 million Americans cast by Monday, according to the United States Election Project<\/a>. That\u2019s up from 32.3 million early votes in 2012, according to the website.<\/p>\n

The early voting turnout in Illinois reached 1.27 million on Sunday, up from am early 1.2 million across the state in 2012, according to the Illinois Board of Elections and news accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf early voting is indicative of how it\u2019s going to be today, then I think we\u2019re going to see a very healthy turnout, and it may exceed the prior presidential elections in 2008 and 2012,\u201d Chicago Board of Election Commissioners chairwoman Marisel Hernandez was quoted by Chicago\u2019s local CBS<\/a> station as saying.<\/p>\n

Cook County Clerk David Orr was also quoted as saying that in the first hour of voting in suburban Cook County on Tuesday, about 1,000 ballots were cast per minute, and nearly 100,000 people had voted by 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

Polls close in Illinois at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Long Journey to Election Day <\/strong><\/p>\n

The presidential election has been an historically bitterly contested one.<\/p>\n

Clinton arrived in Chappaqua, along with her husband, to cast her ballot at 8 a.m. New York time. Trump was expected to vote in New York later this morning.<\/p>\n

Many polls showed Clinton with a lead nationally and in key battleground states, but analysts had not ruled out a Trump victory. The nation, and the world, is not likely to know the winner before polls close this evening on the West Coast. <\/p>\n

The final week of the campaigning saw both candidates travel across the country to get their message out at rallies in states seen as battlegrounds, where, the election will likely be decided.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2014who was joined by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, at a rally in Philadelphia Monday night\u2014urged for unity and a vote for \u201ca hopeful, inclusive, big-hearted America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump addressed his last rally in New Hampshire, which is where he won his first victory when he began his campaign, and he told his supporters that on election day, \u201cthe American working class will strike back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both candidates campaigned well into the night.<\/p>\n

Dixville Notch in New Hampshire was the first place to vote at midnight. The residents of the tiny town cast a total of eight votes: Clinton secured four while Trump received two. Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who ran against Obama in 2012, received one vote, even though he is not running, while Libertarian Gary Johnson received one.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Voter line up at 303 E. Wacker Drive early Monday morning. (Muna Khan\/MEDILL<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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