Tagged: Bobby Schilling

Election 2012
7:52 am
Mon October 22, 2012

Congressional Race: 17th District

  • WNIJ's Jenna Dooley speaks with Cheri Bustos
  • WNIJ's Jenna Dooley speaks with Bobby Schilling
  • WNIJ's Dan Klefstad talks with NIU Political Scientist Matt Streb about the two candidates

There are several similarities between the candidates in Illinois’s 17th Congressional District, which includes Democratic-leaning chunks from Rockford and Peoria as well as wrapping through the Quad Cities and across rural northwestern Illinois.

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12:00 am
Wed March 7, 2012

All Dems a threat to Schilling in IL-17

Matt Streb
NIU's Matt Streb

Republican Congressman Bobby Schilling is unopposed in the March 20 primary, but whoever wins the Democratic nomination will be a serious threat.  There are 3 Democrats running in the 17th District primary - Greg Aguilar, Cheri Bustos and George Gaulrapp.  NIU political scientist Matt Streb says they benefit from a traditionally Democratic district that was made even more Democratic after redistricting.   Streb talks with WNIJ's Dan Klefstad about this contest.