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Election Day Ends One of Illinois Hardest Campaigns
Illinois voters face a bitter finish as a heated state House race determines control with five south suburban districts in focus. Republicans and Democrats clash in high stakes contests for attorney general treasurer and several congressional seats amid lavish campaign spending and negative messaging.
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Illinois
Jim Edgar
East Hazel Crest
Dawn Clark Netsch
George Ryan
Kankakee
Patrick Quinn
Chicago
GOP
Loleta Didrickson
Flossmoor
Earlean Collins
Jim Ryan
Bensenville
DuPage County
al Hofeld
Winnetka
Judy Baar Topinka
Riverside
Nancy Drew Sheehan
Metropolitan Water Reclamation
John Wayne Gacy
Worth
Bremen
Terry A. Steeze
Maureen Murphy
Evergreen Park
Homewood
Orland Park
John Sheehy
John Ostenburg
Park Forest
Flora Ciarlo
Steger
Bill Balthis
Lansing
Robert Ryan Jr
Homer Township
Terry Hogan
Brent Hassert
Romeoville
Frank Giglio
Calumet City
Jerry Weller
Morris
U.S
George Sangmeister
Mokena
Thornton Township
LaSalle-Peru
William Lipinski
Lyons
Jim Nalepa
Tinley Park
Mel Reynolds
Ddolton
Carl Bibbs
18Th
Paris
Orland
Homer
Harris Fowell
Naperville
William Riley
Westmont
Bobby Rush
William Kelly
Cook
Will
John Stroger
Joe Morris
Metropolitan
Harry “Bus” Yourell
Joseph Gardner
Terrence J. O’brien
Arlene Kasper
Joe Figueroa Edgington
Alan Hugh Lynn
David Orr
Edward G. Howlett
Harold Washington
Herman W. Baker Jr
Edward Rosewell
Jean Reyes Pechette
HWP
Robert J. Pettis