Progressive state Rep. Delia Ramirez won handily over Justin Burau in the new Latino-leaning 3rd District that meanders from Chicago deep into DuPage County.
Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks during a union rally outside the Art Institute of Chicago on Sept. 21, 2022, in Chicago.over Justin Burau in the new Latino-leaning 3rd District that meanders from Chicago deep into DuPage County.
The 3rd District extends from progressive Northwest Side Chicago neighborhoods to historically conservative towns in the far reaches of DuPage County.A progressive with ties to liberal U.S. Rep.
If elected, Ramirez said she’d have immigration reform at the top of her agenda in Washington, D.C. About 47.4% of the 3rd District’s nearly 754,000 residents are Hispanic, according to the Illinois Democratic Party. Biden won the precincts of the 3rd District in 2020 with 69.7% of the vote, to 28.3% for Trump, according to Daily Kos.
Burau, of suburban Winfield, ran in the general election as the long-shot Republican in the race. A first-time political candidate and vice president of operations for a mortgage company, he said his underdog campaign gave him the freedom to depart from GOP orthodoxy, to support ideas like finding a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients.
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