The general election saw turnout of 72.56%, with 2,095,985 ballots cast.[5] Chicago saw 1,14,080 ballots cast, and suburban Cook County saw 981,905 ballots cast.[1]
In the 1988 Cook County Recorder of Deeds election, incumbent first-term recorder of deeds Harry Yourell, a Democrat, did not seek reelection, instead running to be a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Democrat Carol Moseley Braun was elected to succeed him.
Mosely Braun's election made her the first African-American to hold the office of Cook County recorder of deeds.[8]
In the 1988 Cook County Board of Appeals special election, one seat on the board were up for election. Due to the death of Harry Semrow, this special election was held to fill the seat he had served on.[9] Democrat Joseph Berrios was elected to fill the seat.
Thomas A. Jaconetty had been appointed to hold the seat until the new commissioner elected in this race would be seated.[9]
The Republican Party nominated David R. Wiltse, an attorney who had worked in various positions for the state of Illinois and at the time of the election was a special assistant attorney general representing the Illinois Lottery. After losing the general election, Wiltse would remain in that office until 1994. In 1993, he began working as the city attorney of Des Plaines, an office he would hold until retiring in 2012.[10] Wiltse would later run unsuccessfully for judgeships on the Cook County Circuit Court in 1998 and 2001.[11]
Cook County Board of Appeals Republican primary[2]
In the 1988 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago election, three of the nine seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago board were up for election in an at-large election.[1] All three Democratic nominees won.[1]
Pasrtisan elections were held for judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County due to vacancies.[1]Retention elections were also held for the Circuit Court.[1]
Coinciding with the primaries, elections were held to elect the Democratic, Republican, and Illinois Solidarity committeemen for the wards of Chicago.[2]
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