10 ILCS 5/10-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS|10 ILCS 5/ - Election Code.|Article 10 - Making of Nominations in Certain Other Cases

 (from Ch. 46, par. 10-5)Sec. 10-5.         All petitions for nomination shall,  besides containing the names of candidates, specify as to each:1.  The office or offices to which such candidate or candidates shall  be nominated.2.  The new political party, if any, represented, expressed in not more than 5  words. However, such party shall not bear the same name as, nor include  the name of any established political party as defined in this Article.  This prohibition does not preclude any established political party from  making nominations in those cases in which it is authorized to do so.3.  The place of residence of any such candidate or candidates with  the street and number thereof, if any. In the case of electors for  President and Vice-President of the United States, the names of  candidates for President and Vice-President may be added to the party  name or appellation.Such certificate of nomination or nomination papers in addition shall  include as a part thereof, the oath required by Section 7-10.1 of this  Act and must include a statement of candidacy for each of the candidates named  therein, except candidates for electors for President and Vice-President  of the United States. Each such statement shall set out the address of  such candidate, the office for which he is a candidate, shall state that  the candidate is qualified for the office specified and has filed (or will  file before the close of the petition filing period) a  statement of economic interests as required by the Illinois Governmental  Ethics Act, shall request that the candidate's name be placed upon the  official ballot and shall be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate  before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds in this  State, and may be in substantially the following form:    State of Illinois)) SS.County of........)I,...., being first duly sworn, say that I reside at.... street, in  the city (or village) of.... in the county of.... State of Illinois;  and that I am a qualified voter therein; that I am a candidate for  election to the office of.... to be voted upon at the election to be  held on the.... day of....,.....; and that I am legally qualified  to hold such office and that I have filed (or will file before the close  of the petition filing period) a statement of economic  interests as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, and I  hereby request that my name be printed upon the official ballot for  election to such office.    Signed.................Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me by.... who is to me  personally known, this.... day of....,......    Signed.................    (Official Character)    (Seal, if officer has one.)In addition, a new political party petition shall have attached thereto  a certificate stating the names and addresses of the party officers authorized  to fill vacancies in nomination pursuant to Section 10-11.Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid if the  candidate named therein fails to file a statement of economic interests  as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act in relation to his  candidacy with the appropriate officer by the end of the period for the  filing of nomination papers unless he has filed a statement of economic  interests in relation to the same governmental unit with that officer  during the same calendar year as the year in which such nomination  papers were filed.  If the nomination papers of any candidate and the  statement of economic interest of that candidate are not required to be  filed with the same officer, the candidate must file with the officer  with whom the nomination papers are filed a receipt from the officer  with whom the statement of economic interests is filed showing the date  on which such statement was filed.  Such receipt shall be so filed not  later than the last day on which nomination papers may be filed.    (Source: P.A. 84-551.)