Getting out the Hispanic vote: Volunteers plan to knock on 10,000 doors

Jorge Agustin and Heidi Januszewski, of La Casa Norte, knock on doors and hand out flyers Friday afternoon in Brighton Park as part of a campaign urging Latinos in Chicago to vote. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

For sisters Kassandra and Luz Cortez, Fridays and Saturdays are busy. One delivers food, saving for her future; the other helps asylum seekers.

But this weekend, both are trading those activities for something more important: making sure their neighbors vote.