IL-Sen/IL-2/IL-9: Robin Kelly is running in the U.S. Senate primary in Illinois, and Jan Schakowsky is not seeking re-election, so IL-Sen, IL-2, and IL-9 are all open seats.
The IL-2 Democratic primary might be very interesting, as, although it's a district that is based in the Chicago Southland region of the state, the district extends f…
IL-Sen/IL-2/IL-9: Robin Kelly is running in the U.S. Senate primary in Illinois, and Jan Schakowsky is not seeking re-election, so IL-Sen, IL-2, and IL-9 are all open seats.
The IL-2 Democratic primary might be very interesting, as, although it's a district that is based in the Chicago Southland region of the state, the district extends from the southeastern part of Chicago in Cook County to my hometown of Westville in Vermilion County. Potential IL-2 candidates include Mary Catherine Roberson, the 2018 Democratic nominee for Vermilion County Clerk who lost in a landslide but now works in Kelly's congressional office, as well a bunch of potential candidates from the Cook and Will County portions of the district that would take about ten hours for me to list. There are two media markets covering IL-2: Chicago, which contains most of the Democratic primary electorate and is an extremely expensive market to advertise in, and Champaign-Springfield, which covers the southern-most parts of the district. The district is dominated by the Chicago and Suburban Cook portions of the district, even though Iroquois, which is extremely Republican and provides very few Democratic primary votes, is the only county entirely in the district. If several Chicago-area candidates get in, a downstate-based candidate could win the primary with far less than a majority of the vote by running up a massive margin south of Interstate 80 against a split field of Chicago-area candidates.
IL-9's Democratic primary has already been interesting, with Kat Abughazaleh having outraised Schakowsky before the latter's retirement, although Abughazaleh will probably lose in a landslide to someone with more extensive ties to that part of the state, such as Daniel Biss or Laura Fine.
IL-Sen/IL-2/IL-9: Robin Kelly is running in the U.S. Senate primary in Illinois, and Jan Schakowsky is not seeking re-election, so IL-Sen, IL-2, and IL-9 are all open seats.
The IL-2 Democratic primary might be very interesting, as, although it's a district that is based in the Chicago Southland region of the state, the district extends from the southeastern part of Chicago in Cook County to my hometown of Westville in Vermilion County. Potential IL-2 candidates include Mary Catherine Roberson, the 2018 Democratic nominee for Vermilion County Clerk who lost in a landslide but now works in Kelly's congressional office, as well a bunch of potential candidates from the Cook and Will County portions of the district that would take about ten hours for me to list. There are two media markets covering IL-2: Chicago, which contains most of the Democratic primary electorate and is an extremely expensive market to advertise in, and Champaign-Springfield, which covers the southern-most parts of the district. The district is dominated by the Chicago and Suburban Cook portions of the district, even though Iroquois, which is extremely Republican and provides very few Democratic primary votes, is the only county entirely in the district. If several Chicago-area candidates get in, a downstate-based candidate could win the primary with far less than a majority of the vote by running up a massive margin south of Interstate 80 against a split field of Chicago-area candidates.
IL-9's Democratic primary has already been interesting, with Kat Abughazaleh having outraised Schakowsky before the latter's retirement, although Abughazaleh will probably lose in a landslide to someone with more extensive ties to that part of the state, such as Daniel Biss or Laura Fine.
Sen. Robert Peters, a close ally of County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, is also a strong contender in IL-2 I'd imagine.
I'm still solidly behind Juliana Stratton. 💙🇺🇲