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    Illinois transgender candidate

    Cook County Judicial Primary Election March 2018

    A first for Illinois: An openly transgender judicial candidate

    By Mari Cohen and Jeanne Kuang | February 16, 2018

    Cook County’s 10th judicial subcircuit, in parts of northwest Chicago and nearby suburbs, has a crowded field. But one of the candidates is making history as the first openly transgender judicial candidate in Illinois.

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