In this Saturday, March 14, 2020, photo, Denise Arnold, right, an early voting election official with the Chicago Board of Elections, helps Cook County jail inmate Vincent Smith as he participates in early voting for the March 17 Illinois primary in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
March 16, 2020
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March 16, 2020 5:03 p.m.
Detainees walk out of cells, into voting booths in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Sirjerathan Wilson never thought it was worth the trouble to vote and never had. But inside Cook County Jail, Wilson sees it differently: voting is a chance to remind himself that his opinion matters and to show his family that he's doing more than just letting one day bleed into the next.