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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88391, member: 27"]
A retiring congressman's blessing carried a state legislator past a stacked field to lock down a deep-blue Chicago district.

Ford's path through a crowded primary
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[*]La Shawn K. Ford beat several heavyweight Democrats.
[*]Davis personally endorsed Ford as his successor.
[*]Conyears-Ervin got millions from an AIPAC-linked PAC.
[*]Richard Boykin and Jason Friedman also competed.
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Policy talk and baggage on the trail
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[*]Ford pushed to abolish ICE entirely.
[*]Cheaper child care and housing were key pitches.
[*]His 2014 federal misdemeanor tax plea resurfaced.
[*]Probation was the sentence he received back then.
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The Seventh District's quirky political geography
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[*]Democrats drew the map to favor their party.
[*]Its crane-like shape spans Chicago's South and West Sides.
[*]Western suburbs get scooped into the boundary.
[*]Black residents form a plurality of the population.
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Black representation hangs on November's outcome
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[*]Every congressperson from this seat since the 1970s has been Black.
[*]Ford winning would keep that streak alive.
[*]Hispanic, white, and Asian communities share the district.
[*]Chad Koppie snagged the GOP nod again.
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