(10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
    Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated schedule of elections; offices designated.
    (a) At the general election in the appropriate even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
        (1) Elector of President and Vice President of the United States.
        (2) United States Senator and United States Representative.
        (3) State Executive Branch elected officers.
        (4) State Senator and State Representative.
        (5) County elected officers, including State's Attorney, County Board member, County
    
Commissioners, and elected President of the County Board or County Chief Executive.
        (6) Circuit Court Clerk.
        (7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in counties or educational service
    
regions in which that office has been abolished.
        (8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit Courts, on the question of retention,
    
to fill vacancies and newly created judicial offices.
        (9) (Blank).
        (10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, and
    
elected Trustee of other Sanitary Districts.
        (11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise designated in this Section, where
    
the statute creating or authorizing the creation of the district requires an annual election and permits or requires election of candidates of political parties.
        (12) Beginning with the 2024 general election, the elected members of the Chicago Board
    
of Education; the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education shall be a nonpartisan election as provided for under this Code and may be conducted on a separate ballot.
    (b) At the general primary election:
        (1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political parties shall be nominated for
    
those offices to be filled at the general election in that year, except where pursuant to law nomination of candidates of political parties is made by caucus.
        (2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the political party offices of State central
    
committeeperson, township committeeperson, ward committeeperson, and precinct committeeperson shall be filled and delegates and alternate delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be elected as may be required pursuant to this Code. In the even-numbered years in which a Presidential election is to be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary shall also be on the ballot.
        (3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality has provided for annual elections
    
to elect municipal officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois Municipal Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of such municipal officers shall be filled at an election held on the date of the general primary election, provided that the municipal election shall be a nonpartisan election where required by the Illinois Municipal Code. For partisan municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to nominate candidates for municipal office to be elected at the general primary election shall be held on the Tuesday 6 weeks preceding that election.
        (4) in each school district which has adopted the provisions of Article 33 of the School
    
Code, successors to the members of the board of education whose terms expire in the year in which the general primary is held shall be elected.
    (c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
        (1) Municipal officers, provided that in municipalities in which candidates for
    
alderperson or other municipal office are not permitted by law to be candidates of political parties, the runoff election where required by law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law, shall be held on the date of the consolidated election; and provided further, in the case of municipal officers provided for by an ordinance providing the form of government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution, such offices shall be filled by election or by runoff election as may be provided by such ordinance;
        (2) Village and incorporated town library directors;
        (3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
        (4) Commissioners of park districts;
        (5) Trustees of public library districts;
        (6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise designated in this Section, where
    
the statute creating or authorizing the creation of the district permits or requires election of candidates of political parties;
        (7) Township officers, including township park commissioners, township library
    
directors, and boards of managers of community buildings, and Multi-Township Assessors;
        (8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
        (9) Members of school boards in school districts which adopt Article 33 of the School
    
Code;
        (10) The directors and chair of the Chain O Lakes - Fox River Waterway Management
    
Agency;
        (11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected under Section 3.5 of the Downstate
    
Forest Preserve District Act;
        (12) Elected members of school boards, school trustees, directors of boards of school
    
directors, trustees of county boards of school trustees (except in counties or educational service regions having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of boards of school inspectors, except school boards in school districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
        (13) Members of Community College district boards;
        (14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
        (15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
        (16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium Districts;
        (17) Elected Officers of special districts not otherwise designated in this Section for
    
which the law governing those districts does not permit candidates of political parties.
    (d) At the consolidated primary election in each odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties shall be nominated for those offices to be filled at the consolidated election in that year, except where pursuant to law nomination of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of subsection (c).
    At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and alderpersons shall be elected in municipalities in which candidates for mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderperson are not permitted by law to be candidates of political parties, subject to runoff elections to be held at the consolidated election as may be required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to law candidates for such office are not permitted to be candidates of political parties.
    At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate odd-numbered years, municipal officers shall be nominated or elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may be provided by an ordinance providing a form of government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.
    (e) (Blank).
    (f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and any special election otherwise required or authorized by law or by court order may be conducted pursuant to this Code.
    Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers established in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for the establishment of a political subdivision whose officers are to be elected, the initial officers shall be elected at the election at which such referendum is held if otherwise so provided by law. In such cases, the election of the initial officers shall be subject to the referendum.
    Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officials established in this Article, any community college district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as now or hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board members at the next regularly scheduled election following the effective date of the new district.
    (g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in any precinct there are no offices or public questions required to be on the ballot under this Code then no election shall be held in the precinct on that date.
    (h) There may be conducted a referendum in accordance with the provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-177, eff. 6-1-22; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-691, eff. 12-17-21.)