The Primary election is March 17 and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she is ready for a second term so she can continue fighting to make the justice system equal for all.
Political newcomer TyJuan Cratic is seeking to become a state representative and is running on a platform of change, while veteran judges like the honorable Nathaniel Howse Jr. is seeking to become the second black man elected to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Depending on whom you listen to nowadays the March 17 primary election will either make or break candidates running for office unless you’re U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-1st) or Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Kim Neely DuBuclet.
Two priorities one South Side congressman said he plans to fight for, if re-elected this year, is new legislation to help create more black-owned banks and to make participation in lynching a federal crime.
By Wendell Hutson, Contributing Writer
There are not many south suburbs whose population is predominantly black with nearly 20,000 residents of which 31 percent are...