Our election choices

Here are the Chicago Sun-Times endorsements for contested races in today's election. You can take this list and bar association judge ratings into polling places. For detailed endorsements, go to www.suntimes.com/news/commentary.

U.S. SENATE

(Six-year term beginning Jan. 3, 2011)

x Alexi Giannoulias (D)

U.S. SENATE

(Unexpired term ending Jan. 2, 2011)

x Alexi Giannoulias (D)

GOVERNOR/LT. GOVERNOR

x Pat Quinn and Sheila Simon (D)

ATTORNEY GENERAL

x Lisa Madigan (D)

SECRETARY OF STATE

x Jesse White (D)

COMPTROLLER

x Judy Baar Topinka (R)

TREASURER

x Robin Kelly (D)

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

x Dist. 1: Bobby L. Rush (D)

x Dist. 2: No endorsement

x Dist. 3: Daniel W. Lipinski (D)

x Dist. 4: Luis V. Gutierrez (D)

x Dist. 5: Mike Quigley (D)

x Dist. 6: Peter J. Roskam (R)

x Dist. 7: Danny K. Davis (D)

x Dist. 8: Melissa L. Bean (D)

x Dist. 9: Janice D. Schakowsky (D)

x Dist. 10: Dan J. Seals (D)

x Dist. 11: Adam Kinzinger (R)

x Dist. 13: Judy Biggert (R)

x Dist. 14: Bill Foster (D)

ILLINOIS HOUSE

x Dist. 7: Karen A. Yarbrough (D)

x Dist. 11: Ann M. Williams (D)

x Dist. 12: Sara Feigenholtz (D)

x Dist. 17: Daniel K. Biss (D)

x Dist. 19: Joseph M. Lyons (D)

x Dist. 22: No endorsement

x Dist. 26: William D. "Will" Burns (D)

x Dist. 29: Thaddeus Jones (D)

x Dist. 35: Bill Cunningham (D)

x Dist. 36: Kelly M. Burke (D)

x Dist. 37: Kevin A. McCarthy (D)

x Dist. 39: Jeremy Karpen (G)

x Dist. 43: Ruth Munson (R)

x Dist. 44: Billie D. Roth (R)

x Dist. 56: Ryan Higgins (R)

x Dist. 57: Elaine Nekritz (D)

x Dist. 58: Karen May (D)

x Dist. 59: Carol Sente (D)

x Dist. 66: Mark Walker (D)

x Dist. 85: Emily McAsey (D)

ILLINOIS SENATE

x Dist. 7: Heather A. Steans (D)

x Dist. 10: John G. Mulroe (D)

x Dist. 19: M. Maggie Crotty (D)

x Dist. 22: Steven J. Rauschenberger (R)

x Dist. 31: Suzi Schmidt (R)

x Dist. 40: Toi W. Hutchinson (D)

x Dist. 43: A.J. Wilhelmi (D)METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT (vote for 3)

x Michael A. Alvarez (D)

x Paul Chialdikas (R)

x Mariyana T. Spyropoulos (D)

COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT

x Toni Preckwinkle (D)

COOK COUNTY CLERK

x David D. Orr (D)

COOK COUNTY SHERIFF

x Thomas J. Dart (D)

COOK COUNTY TREASURER

x Maria Pappas (D)

COOK COUNTY ASSESSOR

x Forrest Claypool (I)

COOK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

x Dist. 1: Ronald Lawless (G)

x Dist. 2: Robert B. Steele (D)

x Dist. 3: Jerry "Iceman" Butler (D)

x Dist. 4: No endorsement

x Dist. 5: Miriam Shabo (R)

x Dist. 6: Sandra K. Czyznikiewicz (R)

x Dist. 7: Jesus Garcia (D)

x Dist. 9: Peter N. Silvestri (R)

x Dist. 10: Bridget Gainer (D)

x Dist. 11: John P. Daley (D)

x Dist. 12: John A. Fritchey (D)

x Dist. 13: Larry Suffredin (D)

x Dist. 14: Gregg Goslin (R)

x Dist. 15: Timothy O. Schneider (R)

x Dist. 16: Tony Peraica (R)

x Dist. 17: Patrick Maher (D)

COOK COUNTY BOARD OF REVIEW

x Dist. 1: Brendan F. Houlihan (D)JUDICIAL RACES

Cook County has one contested judicial election. For the McCarthy vacancy, Democrat Daniel Gallagher has been found qualified or recommended by all the bar groups. Republican Maureen Masterson Pulia has been found qualified or recommended by all bar groups save the Chicago Council of Lawyers, which found her not qualified.

JUDICIAL CANDIDATES SEEKING RETENTION

Vote Yes for these Illinois Supreme Court justices:

Charles E. Freeman, Bob Thomas, Thomas Kilbride (Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald's name is on the ballot, but he has retired).

Vote No for these Cook County Circuit Court judges:

Dorothy Jones, Susan Jeanine McDunn, James "Jim" Ryan

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RECALL AMENDMENT Vote No