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At the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Bronzeville, a line to register to vote wrapped through the hallway in the basement of the building. "It goes pretty smoothly, but it takes a long time," one voter said.

Mix-ups at polling places hamper some voting

Voters in Chicago were slowed down by hundreds of missing election judges Tuesday and in some cases were handed only half of the ballot, while in Lake County election officials...
A red light camera at Halsted and 119th streets generated 1,717 tickets over 52 days in 2011, one of many wild spikes in Chicago since 2007.

City’s yellow light change caught 77,000 drivers

The Emanuel administration quietly issued a new, shorter yellow light standard this spring that generated 77,000 red light camera tickets that would not have been allowed before the rule change,...
Gail Baikie, of Skokie, is among drivers who have seen Chicago traffic tickets tossed because of short yellow light times. "I really think they need to fix this because so many people just pay these things without even thinking about it."

Shorter yellow times are now the ticket

A Tribune examination of overturned red light tickets revealed evidence that the city of Chicago has quietly cast a wider net to snare drivers since switching camera vendors earlier this...
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Few red light camera refunds, spikes unexplained

City Hall has promised 126 refunds to drivers tagged for $100 fines during suspicious spikes in red light camera tickets discovered by a Tribune investigation but upheld thousands of other...