It looks like next week’s primary election will see Illinois still in play for the presidential race on both sides. Usually everything has been decided by the time our state gets to vote, but not this time. Will our middle-class, middle-road, middle-of-the-nation Prairie State impose its traditional values on the contest, avoiding the fringes to endorse decency on one side and pragmatism on the other? Or will it follow the national trend, ignore common sense and just go wild? – Fletcher Farrar, editor and publisher
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2016.
