ENDORSEMENT: Diane Pappas for Illinois House in the 45th District

SHARE ENDORSEMENT: Diane Pappas for Illinois House in the 45th District

Every legislator at some point was a first-time candidate who had to convince the voters that they deserved to be elected to public office. Residents of west suburban 45th District should not need much persuading that attorney Diane Pappas deserves their vote. We endorse Pappas, a Democrat, over Republican Christine Winger of Wood Dale.

Straightforward and well-informed, Pappas has worked as an in-house attorney for major companies and wants to bring her corporate negotiating experience to Springfield to “cut through partisan gridlock and get our state back on the right track.” As a one-time Independent (she volunteered to run as a Democrat when the party’s nominee dropped out), we expect Pappas to bring a fresh, practical perspective to the Legislature.

She also has a compelling personal story that shows she can rise to a challenge: Her family immigrated here from Communist Poland and Pappas eventually earned degrees from Michigan State University and Yale Law School. She has served as a precinct committeeman for Addison Township and worked with the community group Itasca Citizens Against Road Expansion.

Illinois House 45th District map

Illinois House 45th District map

Send letters to: letters@suntimes.com


RELATED


SUN-TIMES 2018 ILLINOIS VOTING GUIDE


The Latest
The man was shot in the left eye area in the 5700 block of South Christiana Avenue on the city’s Southwest Side.
Most women who seek abortions are women of color, especially Black women. Restricting access to mifepristone, as a case now before the Supreme Court seeks to do, would worsen racial health disparities.
The Bears have spent months studying the draft. They’ll spend the next one plotting what could happen.
Woman is getting anxious about how often she has to host her husband’s hunting buddy and his wife, who don’t contribute at all to mealtimes.
He launched a campaign against a proposed neo-Nazis march at a time the suburb was home to many Holocaust survivors. His rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation urged Jews to ignore the Nazis. “I jumped up and said, ‘No, Rabbi. We will not stay home and close the windows.’ ”