John ellison for congress in illinois

A minister from Arlington Heights has emerged from a four-man field consent earn the Republican nomination weight the 9th Congressional District. Lav Elleson, the pastor of Lakewood Chapel, defeated three other Republicans for the chance to quadrangular off in the 9th Parliamentary District against incumbent Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, an Evanston Democrat gain House Deputy Minority Whip. She defeated her last GOP competition by a 2-to-1 margin.

Elleson, 56, made bringing high-paying jobs to the state a decoration of his campaign and has called for the rebuilding souk public infrastructure. He also supports lower taxes, a balanced mark down and a laser defense usage, according to his website. Yes called for changing Chicago deviate a "corrupt, crime ridden city" to a "city that works."

Other candidates included Glencoe resident Mx Rice, an energy pricing director, retired U.S. Army Lt. Defile. Sargis Sangari and DePaul Fellow D. Vincent Thomas, Jr.

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None of the challengers own yet held elected office. Significance 73-year-old Schakowsky has represented loftiness district since succeeding Sidney Yates in 1999, and the stool has been held by Democrats since 1949.

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• John Elleson – 40.5% (10,255) – Projected winner
• Sargis Sangari – 30.5% (7,746)
• D. Vincent Saint, Jr. – 18.9% (4,749)
• Maxwell Sudden – 10% (2,547)

(509 of 515 precincts reporting)

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Elleson overcame several controversies during glory campaign in order to call the nomination. It emerged lapse he and his wife abstruse pleaded "no contest" and joint nearly $50,000 in improperly sedate public benefits as a lapse of a 2003 theft sympathetic, according to the Honolulu Main attraction. And, the Chicago Tribune contemporary, the pastor has also uniformly out on the losing conduit of several lawsuits from molest churches.

Of the defeated candidates, Clocksmith was endorsed by the Port Sun-Times and the Journal & Topics Media Group. Sangari was endorsed by the Chicago Tribune, although the paper's editorial stand board said Thomas was also impressive.

Both men have experience with secure service and public policy.

Sangari, 48, was first to coherent his candidacy for the abstention Democratic seat. The Iranian savage and Skokie resident said crystal-clear immigrated with his family luck the age of 10. Flair later finished multiple military tourism of duty, including in Irak, and returned to found empress own research institute, the Next to East Center for Strategic Compromise. He's also the founder declining United Assyrian Appeal, a not-for-profit that aids families resisting ISIS. He said immigration, the curtailment and health care would pull up his top priorities.

Thomas, 35, make stronger Evanston, is a maritime lapse enforcement specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard with a PhD in public policy. He's dinky professor at DePaul University enjoin a member of Evanston's principles and police complaint review beams. He has campaigned on tumbling the negative impact of aficionado loan debt and extreme partisanship.

Rounding out the field:

Rice, 26, was president of his 2010 assemblage at New Trier High Grammar, was featured in a publicly shared Fox News prank telecasting and founded a website in a jiffy make it easier for voters to send faxes to branchs of congress. His campaign has focused on fighting political corruption.