- Bullmoose Party Illinois House candidate Thomas Kuna-Jacob kicked off the ballot for an insufficient number of signatures.
- Independent Illinois Senate candidate Marcus Throneburg kicked off the ballot citing election code provisions against voting in a partisan primary.
- Libertarian Congressional candidate Kathleen McManamon kicked off the ballot for an insufficient number of signatures.
- Libertarian Illinois House candidate Scott Schluter kicked off the ballot for an insufficient number of signatures.
- Patriot Party Illinois House candidate Ellen Graff kicked off the ballot for an insufficient number of signatures.
- Constitution Party Illinois House candidate Alexander Haas kicked off the ballot for an insufficient number of signatures.
- Libertarian Illinois House candidates Mark Elmore, Chad Grimm, Brad Bielert and Clayton Cleveland placed on the ballot.
- Green Illinois House candidates John Keating, Jr. and Alia Sarfraz placed on the ballot.
- Independent Illinois House candidate Ryan Musick placed on the ballot. (Although it was updated after the fact as Constitution Party, but original filings stated as an independent.)
- Independent U.S. Senate candidate Willie Wilson placed on the ballot.
- Independent presidential candidate Kanye West kicked off the ballot.
- Independent Congressional candidate Ruth Pellegrini kicked off the ballot.
- Libertarian Congressional candidate Bill Redpath placed on the ballot.
- Constitution Party candidates for POTUS and U.S. Senate kicked off the ballot.
Jake Leonard, a broadcast media and journalism veteran, is the editor-in-chief of Heartland Newsfeed. Leonard is also GM and program director of Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network, wrestling editor and contributing writer for Ambush Sports, a contributing writer for My Sports Vote and Midwest Sports Network, and a former contributor to Bleacher Report and Overtime Heroics. He resides at home in Nokomis, Ill. with his dog Buster.


