Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-5), from Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich’s old congressional seat, has followed the lead of his predecessors by launching an attack on his district (and the rest of the nation’s) rich, awful yacht owners. Class warfare…

Anger plus diminution plus nationalization equals aberration – and victory.
That’s the formula for success espoused by David Ratowitz, the woefully obscure Northwest Side 5th District Republican congressional candidate, lawyer and former Army Ranger who believes that he is 2010’s reincarnation of Michael Patrick Flanagan, the equally obscure Republican who upset powerhouse Democratic U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski in 1994. Flanagan served one term.

Ratowitz is challenging incumbent Mike Quigley (D-5), elected in a special 2009 election to replace Rahm Emanuel (D), now the …

In a few short days Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, winner of the special Democratic primary election of March 3, will be ratified as Democratic representative of the 5th Congressional District of Illinois.
His nomination was widely seen as a harbinger of political reform—a dubious precept, as I will demonstrate—but it’s likely to result in a serious regression for the County Board.
Quigley may not be the absolute reformer many believe him to be, but for years he usually played a constructive, independent role along with Democrats Forrest Claypool and Larry Suffredin …

On Saturday afternoon, in the midst of Chicago’s famous St. Patrick’s Day celebration with its tradition of turning of the Chicago River green, a cadre of concerned Republicans met to plan a way to capture the Congressional seat of Chicago’s 5th District, the one being vacated by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
The candidate charged with this task is Rosanna Pulido and she only has about three weeks to do it. The special election for Emanuel’s seat is to be held as soon as April 7th.
Read more at Red State

Remember the old pop song lyric: “Everybody loves somebody sometime”? That, in a nutshell, explains the March 3 Democratic primary in the 5th congressional district.  I mistakenly said John Fritchey would likely win…but hey, I just wrote that to see if you were paying attention.  Back to the song title.
The “Big Four” – John Fritchey and Sara Feigenholtz, both state representatives, County Commissioner Mike Quigley, and Alderman Pat O’Connor (40th) – spent a combined $1,911,485, got a cumulative 37,467 votes, but didn’t generate much “love.” Quigley eked out a victory …

I live in the Fifth Congressional District and will vote in the special election on Tuesday for Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley to replace Rahm Emanuel who left Congress to become President Obama’s Chief of Staff.  Even though this primary has been somewhat overshadowed by the Roland Burris situation, a large turnout of voters was never predicted for this race.  And because there are thirteen candidates, this election is a lot like a lottery.  Anyone can win.  No one should be surprised if the winner has somewhere between 15 and …

This column specializes in crunching numbers and making predictions. For the March 3 Democratic primary in the Northwest side’s 5th congressional district, those crunched numbers are:
620,387: The district’s 2005 population.
345,000 (est.): The district’s registered voters.
124,098: The Democratic turnout in the Feb. 2008 presidential primary.
67,499-52,671: The margin by which Obama beat Clinton.
578: The number of precincts in the district — 486 in Chicago and 92 in the western suburbs.
46,774: The votes that victor Rahm Emanuel got in the 2002 Democratic primary, in a turnout of 92,625.
33,907: The number of votes that …