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In latest bid for mayor, Vallas has pivoted to run on law-and-order and other themes that have drawn support from conservatives.
Mike Noonan was the consummate Illinois political insider. He now runs a “budtique” in southwestern Michigan.
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Democrats have led the Cook County Board for decades but Republicans are now running a former Democrat for the top elected position.
Incumbent Sean Morrison, one of only two Republicans on the Cook County Board, said he is often a lone voice on the Democratically controlled panel. But his challenger in the June 28 GOP primary, former county commissioner Elizabeth "Liz" Doody Gorman, says Morrison is too much of a lone wolf.
If this sounds like an echo of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, who used his influence in 2002 to help elect his daughter Lisa Madigan attorney general, that’s because it is.