The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Crook County:
Every two years lawyers in Cook County who want to be judges come before this gathering and ask to be “slated” as the party’s preferred choice for judge in Democratic primary election March 20. The November general election is irrelevant as no Republican has won in decades.
There's more:
Ald. Burke, who for decades has been the emcee, the power-behind-the-scenes; the raconteur running the judicial slating, takes a decidedly low-key role this year, letting Martwick and Committeeman Tom Bradford run the show.
“It moved quicker, didn’t it?” Burke says with a smile afterward.
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