In the depths of the 1982 Reagan recession, when rustbelt manufacturing towns like Rock Island and the surrounding western Illinois farm country convulsed with deep economic pain, a young legal services attorney set off on what seemed like a quixotic quest—campaigning as a Democrat for a congressional seat that, outside one brief hiatus, had been held by Republicans for more… return to article
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