# Getting Campaign Material For Chicago’s School Board Election? We Fact-Checked Some Of It

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/27/getting-campaign-material-for-chicagos-school-board-election-we-fact-checked-some-of-it/

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. CHICAGO — Like voters across Chicago, Syd Tomlinson has seen lots of different campaign materials for Chicago’s school board election: mailers, YouTube ads, and text messages. But Tomlinson is “a pretty skeptical media consumer,” especially of political attack ads. “I don’t necessarily take any of them at face value for what they’re saying or the content of what they’re saying about a candidate,” Tomlinson said. Earlier this month, we asked readers to send in campaign mater

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