Voters in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District will choose their next representative Tuesday.

The special election on Chicago’s North Side and a few suburbs will fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel, who’s now the White House chief of staff. The three candidates left standing all competed in crowded primaries with low voter turnout.

Jim Allen is with the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. He says he’s expecting a lower turnout today than the 17-percent who showed up for the special primary.

ALLEN: Part of the reason, too, is that spring break is on in Chicago so there may be a larger number of voters who are going to be out of town.

Allen says about 2,000 people have voted early for today’s election. Four-thousand came out early for the primary.