In addition to Swain, Dowell, Cole and Williams, other candidates who have tried to elbow for attention include Karin Norington-Reaves, who has received Rush’s endorsement and is the coordinator for federal workforce training for Chicago and suburban Cook County, state Sen.
Mark United Methodist Church on April 23, 2022. Karin Norington-Reaves, candidate for the 1st Congressional District, speaks at a forum at St. Explaining why they were better than the other candidates usually ended with a pitch about upbringing or experience. Time and again, they said the issues that mattered most in the district were jobs, inflation, health care and public safety. Mark United Methodist Church in Chatham on the South Side, Swain and 13 of the other hopefuls pitched themselves as Rush’s obvious successor but all struggled to stand out from the others. Still, it is a significant decrease from prior configurations that had Black residents as a clear majority districtwide.ĭuring a recent candidate forum at St. The redrawn district, which threads from the South Loop through the South Side and deep into the south suburbs to the edge of Kankakee County, gives the 1st District the most number of African American residents of the state’s 17 congressional seats. Today, the district is 49.7% Black, according to state Democrats who designed the latest Illinois congressional map. And for me, I’m a son of the South Side.” “What I can say is all of them were reared and developed by the richness of the district, and those days in particular, the South Side. “It has a legacy of folks … a lot of big names there,” one of the candidates, business owner Jonathan Swain, said. The major Democratic candidates this year are all Black, and the significance of the seat is its own issue in the campaign. While it was a seismic political event when the onetime “radical” won, Rush long ago morphed into a sometimes-conflicted elder statesman who amassed political power strong enough to defeat a young Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary for the seat.
Rush, a former Black Panther, has held the post since 1993. After De Priest, the seat has been held by seven Democratic congressmen, a roll call of federal lawmakers that includes congressional powerhouse William Dawson and Harold Washington before he became Chicago’s first Black mayor.
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