The governor and possible presidential hopeful strongly backed Juliana Stratton, who will likely become the sixth Black woman to serve in the Senate.

The race to succeed five-term Democratic Illinois senator Dick Durbin, which exposed political fault lines from Illinois to Washington, D.C., all but ended in a win for Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton on Tuesday. Stratton emerged victorious in a closely contested Democratic primary over two … More »

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