Union members’ votes in the general election may make or
break whether Democrats take back control of the House of
Representatives, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) said at a labor rally
in Lincolnshire Saturday morning.
Dozens of organized workers in Illinois’ 10th congressional district met with Schakowsky for a pep talk in support of
Democrat candidate Brad Schneider, who’s looking to defeat first-term
incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Dold (R), before they branched off for a
door-to-door canvas of fellow union members in the area.
“We
cannot win this race, and we can’t save our country, without organized
labor,” Schakowsky said at the International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America’s Region 4 office.
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Democratic challenger for the 11th Congressional District, Bill Foster is heading back to Washington after 
Chicago's northwest suburbs have a new representative in the U.S.
House tonight as Democrat Tammy Duckworth, perhaps best known for losing
her legs in the Iraq War and her work on veterans' issues, defeated Joe
Walsh, a Tea Party icon and now one-term Congressman. 
A confident Tammy Duckworth voted at around 10:00 a.m. at the massive
Willow Creek Church complex in Barrington. Duckworth is trying to
unseat controversial Congressman Joe Walsh, a Tea Party favorite, in one
of the most high-profile and expensive congressional races in the
nation in a redrawn 8th district.
In a 