Mr. Illini maps the 2016 Illinois primary

[Mr. Illini]

Cook and Lake Counties, GOP Primary

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[Mr. Illini]

The Democratic race for Clerk of Circuit Court - a Green Line request

Despite having her home raided by by police and facing potential ethics charges, Brown was able to coast to victory in this primary. The result may not have been quite as much of a blowout as the map suggests - she won Brown 48/Harris 30/Meister 22 - yet, it Brown's victory was not all that difficult..

Cook County Dems endorsed Harris after the raid on Brown's home, but their efforts were futile.



We see that Brown did well throughout. Her numbers were best in the black areas of the county. The south and west sides along with the south suburbs were Brown's best jurisdictions. She also did well in the Hispanic areas - although Harris picked up a couple of wards there. Harris also, for whatever reason, won Lemont. No clear explanation there. Meister, a white, liberal human rights attorney, did best in, predictably, white liberal areas. His best numbers were on the north side - his best wards containing Lakeview, Roscoe Village, and parts of Lincoln Square. The North Shore as well - taking New Trier and Northfield townships.

[Mr. Illini]

Lemont, as well as Orland and Worth to some extent, have a lot of former Southwest Side machine voters from places like Madigans district (which Harris won) who moved out when the areas fell apart.  Maybe they are still influenced by the machine to some extent.  Thats all I can think of for Lemont at least.

It's also probably the most culturally conservative township, so Meister probably didnt fare well there at all, meaning Harris was able to consolidate the anti-brown vote.

Since I know you voted in the Dem primary - did you vote for Harris or Brown?

[Mr. Illini]

The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Cook County



Obviously Duckworth killed it. However, some puzzling observations. It seems like Zopp did better in Hispanic areas than she did in black areas, despite having in-roads in the black community. This could be because of Harris - who also has in-roads in the black community. There's a chance that he split the "non-Duckworth vote" - except that didn't really exist as any sort of sentiment in this race. So why Hispanic communities were more sympathetic to Zopp, I am not sure. We see that Zopp won one SW side Hispanic ward as well as Cicero, a heavily Hispanic near west suburb. She also won one ward on the south side. Harris won south suburban township Thornton, which includes part of his state senate district. Duckworth's largest margins were in that huge block of dark red townships in the north of the county and the far north side wards. A number of those townships are in her Congressional district, and the townships/wards that aren't are very white - areas she did very well in.

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Lemont, as well as Orland and Worth to some extent, have a lot of former Southwest Side machine voters from places like Madigans district (which Harris won) who moved out when the areas fell apart.  Maybe they are still influenced by the machine to some extent.  Thats all I can think of for Lemont at least.

It's also probably the most culturally conservative township, so Meister probably didnt fare well there at all, meaning Harris was able to consolidate the anti-brown vote.

Since I know you voted in the Dem primary - did you vote for Harris or Brown?

I definitely didn't vote for the criminal!  I can't remember if I went with Harris or Meister, though.

[Mr. Illini]

Lemont, as well as Orland and Worth to some extent, have a lot of former Southwest Side machine voters from places like Madigans district (which Harris won) who moved out when the areas fell apart.  Maybe they are still influenced by the machine to some extent.  Thats all I can think of for Lemont at least.

It's also probably the most culturally conservative township, so Meister probably didnt fare well there at all, meaning Harris was able to consolidate the anti-brown vote.

Since I know you voted in the Dem primary - did you vote for Harris or Brown?

I definitely didn't vote for the criminal!  I can't remember if I went with Harris or Meister, though.

Yeah I meant to ask Harris or Meister