Jonathan Jackson Faces No Opposition in 1st District Primary
Rep. Jonathan Jackson did not have to break a sweat on primary day Tuesday. With no Democratic challenger on the ballot, he cruised through the Illinois 1st Congressional District primary while Republicans battled it out to see who would take him on in November.
On the GOP side, voters chose between Christian Maxwell and Marcus Lewis, who were vying for the Republican nomination and a long-shot bid to unseat Jackson this fall.
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Jackson appeared alone on Tuesday's Democratic primary ballot and will once again carry the party banner into November. He first captured the seat after Bobby Rush retired and has since settled into the kind of incumbency that tends to scare off intra-party challengers.
Republican voters in the 1st District saw Christian Maxwell and Marcus Lewis listed on the GOP ballot, according to WTTW. Lewis, a familiar name to district voters, has run multiple times before and told the Chicago Sun-Times that repeat campaigns help build nam…