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Vote Fraud Investigations

Investigations into vote fraud in Chicago, including those led by the Chicago Tribune and federal authorities.

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How did the Chicago Tribune’s 1972 investigation change election oversight and lead to reforms?

The Chicago Tribune’s 1972 year‑long investigation documented more than 1,000 specific acts of vote fraud in city elections and prompted federal grand‑jury indictments, convictions and a pledge of fed...

Jan 14, 2026

CHICAGO POLITICS VOTE FRAUD HISTORY

Chicago’s history of vote fraud is real, well-documented and concentrated in the city’s machine politics era, with pockets of large-scale misconduct exposed in the 1960s–1980s; subsequent investigatio...