Chicago Tribune: Illinois Democrats spend $190,000 to defend state Sen. Sara Feigenholtz from progressive challenger

Coverage in the Chicago Tribune this morning:

SPRINGFIELD — Chicago North Side voters have unfailingly sent Sara Feigenholtz to the Illinois General Assembly since 1994, but the Democratic Party of Illinois has spent nearly $190,000 in the last month to defend the 31-year incumbent from an upstart progressive challenger who was born two years after her first electoral victory.

The state party’s six-figure expenditure for mailers supporting Feigenholtz’s campaign for state Senate began Feb. 13 and is nearly double the amount the party has spent on any other General Assembly candidate since September — the next closest being House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch at $95,000, who is running to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Danny Davis on the state central committee.

Feigenholtz faces 29-year-old Nick Uniejewski, a former policy analyst for the city of Chicago who’s won the support of several progressive organizations… read the rest of the article via this gift link.