Vol. VI No. 27 Bellwood native goes to Broadway, PAGE 4
JULY 6, 2022
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Mr. Beef’s festive grand opening, PAGE 7
Voters chime in on candidates, referendum questions
Preliminary results of June 28 Illinois Primary Election show all local referendums but one were successful By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
The Illinois Primary Election on June 28 has officially come and gone, and there were few surprises. Gov. JB Pritzker beat challenger Beverly Miles 92% to 8% in the Democratic primary while in the Republican primary Darren Bailey garnered 57% of the vote in a six-person field that included Richard Irvin, who had once been heralded as the frontrunner. As of around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, and with most precincts reporting, Irvin was in third place, with 15% of the vote, followed by Jesse Sullivan, with about 16% of the vote. Incumbent Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul ran unopposed while Republican Thomas DeVore won with 44% of the vote. Alex Giannoulias was up in the Democratic Party primary for Secretary of State, with 53% of the vote in a four-person field while in the Republican Primary Dan Brady garnered See RESULTS on page 3
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Davis narrowly avoids primary loss in reelection bid Up 52-45, Congressman declared victory over Kina Collins June 28, in his closest race since 1996 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
On June 28, Congressman Danny K. Davis (7th) emerged from a conference room inside of the National Association of Letter Carriers building in Chicago, where his election night party was taking place, with the face of a haggard heavy-
weight champion fighter surprised that the match went so long. About a half-hour earlier, the longtime congressman’s campaign party had been rather muted, with some staffers nervously whispering into cell phones and volunteers looking anxiously at a projector screen showing a local TV news anchor process election data. When the Chicago Sun-Times projected a victory for the congressman — who as of 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday was leading his closest challenger, gun control advocate Kina Collins, 52% to 45% — the room of several dozen supporters exhaled and cheered before shouting, “Danny! Danny! Danny!”
Davis said Tuesday’s election was his narrowest margin of victory since he first ran for Congress nearly 30 years ago in 1996. “I think the first race I ran, I got 32% of the vote, but of course it was five or six of us in that race,” he said. Allen Evans, an activist with the Peacemaker Coalition, a group of community groups focusing on addressing violence in Austin, said he’s known Davis since he was a Chicago alderman and has volunteered on his campaigns since that first congressional race in 1996. Evans said he didn’t think this most recent election would be so close. See DAVIS on page 3