--- title: Chance the Rapper Leads Voters in Parade to Chicago Polls description: After a free concert, Chance the Rapper led voters in a parade through downtown Chicago to the polls where early votes could be cast. canonical: https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T16:21:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:30.079Z og:title: Watch Chance the Rapper Lead Voters in a Parade to the Polls og:description: The Chicago rapper wants you to stay woke and vote og:url: https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Chance the Rapper Lead Voters in a Parade to the Polls twitter:description: The Chicago rapper wants you to stay woke and vote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Chance the Rapper Lead a Massive Parade of Voters to the Chicago Polls > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 8, 2016 4:21 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 8, 2016 4:21 PM UTC Two months ago, [Chance the Rapper](http://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/) encouraged his fans to “[Stay woke and vote” by offering them the option to register to vote](http://time.com/4495859/chance-the-rapper-naacp-voting/) during his _Magnificent World_ world tour stops; now, in the wake of the presidential election, it looks like Chicago’s beloved MC and [President Obama’s favorite rapper](http://time.com/4549512/obama-on-favorite-rappers/) is still putting his money where his mouth is. Following a free concert on Monday in downtown Chicago, Chance led a massive parade of voters to a polling place, where voters could participate in early voting. [_ABC 7_ ](http://abc7chicago.com/politics/election-2016-chance-the-rapper-leads-hundreds-to-early-voting-site/1593700/) reported that the pre-election voting in Cook County, where Chicago is located, has far surpassed records set in both 2008 and 2012 with more than 438,212 ballots cast as of Monday night. See footage from the parade below. > [](https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/795731870537359360) > [](https://twitter.com/ReddPhotog/status/795777334070702080) > [](https://twitter.com/5SOSBreeezy/status/795790279399866368) > [](https://twitter.com/egpaul/status/795781200392634373) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/"},"headline":"Watch Chance the Rapper Lead a Massive Parade of Voters to the Chicago Polls","datePublished":"2016-11-08T16:21:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:30.079Z","description":"The Chicago rapper wants you to \"stay woke and vote\"","url":"https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","politics","Music","Election","celebrity","Election 2016","Culture","chance the rapper"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4562411/chance-the-rapper-chicago-voting-parade/","name":"Watch Chance the Rapper Lead a Massive Parade of Voters to the Chicago Polls"}}]}] ```