Lisa Madigan will not run for re-election

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170915/NEWS02/170919923/illinois-attorney-general-lisa-madigan-will-not-seek-re-election

CHICAGO, IL (Rich Miller, Crain’s Chicago Business.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

“I’m ready to move on to a new challenge,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan explained today after informing me that she will not seek reelection and won’t run for any other office next year.

At the end of her term, she’ll have served 16 years as the state’s top lawyer, plus another 4 years in the Illinois Senate.

“I love working, I love advocating for the people of Illinois. And I’m going to keep doing it through the end of my term,” Madigan said.

Besides the governor and his running mate, the only other statewide Republican candidate currently backed by the party apparatus is Erika Harold, who is running for attorney general. The Republicans had planned to go after the Democratic incumbent hard by tying her as closely as they could to her wildly unpopular father.

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