Last week, voters of Jersey County, Illinois, again chose Ben Goetten as their State’s Attorney. In most states the same office is called District Attorney. The office is a partisan office.

Goetten had already served four terms as a Democrat, but in 2023 he announced that in 2024, when he was up for re-election, he would run as an independent. He did so, and no one ran against him. It is believed that he is the first independent to be elected to that office in any Illinois county in over a century. Thanks to Sam Cahnman for the news.
Here is a 2023 news story about Goetten’s decision to become an independent.