65 ILCS 5/3.1-25-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 3.1 - Officers

 (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-25-20)Sec. 3.1-25-20.     Primary election.     A village incorporated under this Code shall  nominate and elect candidates for president and trustees in nonpartisan  primary and general elections as provided in Sections 3.1-25-20 through  3.1-25-55  until the electors of the village vote to require the partisan election of  the president and trustees at a referendum in the manner provided in  Section 3.1-25-65 after January 1, 1992.  The  provisions of Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-55 shall  apply to all villages incorporated under this Code that have operated  under those Sections without the adoption of those provisions by the  referendum provided in Section 3.1-25-60 as well as those villages that have  adopted those provisions by the referendum provided in Section 3.1-25-60  until  the electors of those villages vote to require the partisan election of the  president and trustees in the manner provided in Section 3.1-25-65.  Villages that have nominated and elected candidates for president and  trustees in partisan elections prior to January 1, 1992, may continue to  hold partisan elections without conducting a referendum in the manner  provided in Section 3.1-25-65.  All  candidates for nomination to be voted for at all general municipal elections  at which a president or trustees, or both, are to be elected under this  Article shall be nominated from the village at large by a primary election.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no primary shall be held in any  village when the nomination for every office to be voted upon by the electors  of the village is uncontested.  If the nomination of candidates is uncontested  as to one or more, but not all, of the offices to be voted upon by the electors  of the village, then a primary must be held in the village, provided that the  primary ballot shall not include those offices in the village for which the  nomination is uncontested.  For the purposes of this Section, an office is  uncontested when not more than the number of persons to be nominated to the  office have timely filed valid nominating papers seeking nomination for  election to that office.Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, when a person (i) who has not timely  filed valid nomination papers and (ii) who intends to become a write-in  candidate for nomination for any office for which nomination is uncontested  files a written statement or notice of that intent with the proper election  official with whom the nomination papers for that office are filed, a primary  ballot must be prepared and a primary must be held for the office.  The  statement or notice must be filed on or before the 61st day before the  consolidated primary election.  The statement  must contain (i) the name and address of the person intending to become a  write-in candidate, (ii) a statement that the person intends to become a  write-in candidate, and (iii) the office the person is seeking as a write-in  candidate.  An election authority has no duty to conduct a primary election or  prepare a primary ballot unless a statement meeting the requirements of this  paragraph is filed in a timely manner.Only the names of those persons nominated in the manner prescribed in  Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-65 shall be placed on  the ballot at the general municipal election.  The village clerk shall certify the offices to be filled and the candidates  for those offices to the proper election authority  as provided in the general election law.  A primary for those offices, if  required, shall be held in accordance with  the general election law.     (Source: P.A. 91-57, eff. 6-30-99.)