The Chicago Tribune picked Donald Peloquin to challenge Democrat incumbent Bobby Rush in the newly-drawn, more suburban 1st CD next November:
Donald Peloquin gets the nod in the Republican primary. Peloquin, 61, a funeral director and longtime mayor of Blue Island, is known for his 2004 attempt to get dozens of southland communities to secede and form "Lincoln County." He's a strong advocate for a third regional airport and would work for federal funding for infrastructure projects including the CenterPoint Intermodal Center. When St. Francis Hospital announced it was closing, Peloquin helped build the coalition that created MetroSouth Medical Center, saving more than 1,000 local jobs. He's endorsed over Frederick Collins, a Chicago police officer, and Jimmy Lee Tillman II, son of former Chicago Ald. Dorothy Tillman.
