Incumbent Democrat Maggie Trevor is well-informed, and she promises an “in-depth cost-benefit analysis” of potential budget cuts over the coming year. She cites public transit as a pressing issue in her district, which stretches across the Northwest of Chicagoland, from Palatine to River Forest. She’s fought for expanded Pace bus service as well as better roads and rail crossings. Republican challenger Jon Luers, a retired software engineer, is short on specific ideas, telling us, for instance, that the county health system must have “plenty of extra cash wastefully sloshing around,” but providing no evidence.
Maggie Trevor is endorsed.
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