The first election on June 28 will decide which Democrat and Republican candidates will likely be on the poll for the Nov. 8 normal election.

Could 19 was the primary day to ship in vote-by-mail ballots or vote in individual on the Rock Island County clerk’s workplace, 1504 third Ave., Rock Island.

The crowded subject of six Democratic candidates who will face off within the main are Rock Island County board member Angie Normoyle, former WQAD meteorologist Eric Sorensen, Rockford resident and former Illinois state Rep. Litesa Wallace, Rockford Alderman Jonathan Logemann, Marsha Williams of Channahon and hashish lobbyist Jacqueline McGowan.

Rockford Alderwoman Linda McNeely was faraway from the poll in early Could after the Illinois State Board of Elections dominated among the signatures on her nominating petitions had been invalid, leaving her in need of the required 400 signatures. 

The Republican main will see a match-up between lawyer Esther Pleasure King and insurance coverage dealer Charlie Helmick, each of East Moline. 

Jonathan Logemann, 35, is a two-term 2nd Ward Rockford alderman and a enterprise and economics instructor at Auburn Excessive College. He is also an Illinois Nationwide Guard captain who served a nine-month tour in Afghanistan.

Logemann grew up in Lancaster, Wis., and graduated from the College of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in social research training.

Logemann mentioned he was impressed to run for Congress as a result of he felt a name to serve.

“My nation is essential to me, and my neighborhood is essential to me,” Logemann mentioned in October. “As a instructor, and with my service within the Illinois Nationwide Guard and as an alderman … none of those are glamorous jobs in any respect, however service to neighborhood is one thing that is essential to me.”

Born and raised in California, Jacqueline McGowan moved to Chicago after highschool and now resides in Palos Hills.

McGowan, 47, labored as a stockbroker for 18 years — 9 in New York and 9 in Illinois — earlier than leaving to turn out to be a hashish coverage knowledgeable and lobbyist. She ran unsuccessfully for California governor final 12 months earlier than transferring again to Illinois. 

McGowan aspires to be the “first overtly proud hashish Congresswoman in workplace,” based on a current survey. 

“Extra of us should be open about our use of this plant in an effort to assist destigmatize such a medical consumption,” she mentioned. “Congress is an exceptionally brutal subject, and I really feel I’m probably the most dominating and most certified Democrat to characterize this excellent district of exhausting working folks.”

Angie Normoyle was elected to the Rock Island County board in 2019 representing District 14. 

Normoyle, 55, is a local of Roscoe, close to Rockford. She graduated from Augustana School with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in communications and went on to earn grasp’s and doctorate levels in communications from Northwestern College.

Normoyle has labored part-time as an assistant professor at Augustana School educating communications for 19 years. She additionally has been energetic as a volunteer in the neighborhood, having served on the Moline college board from 2007 to 2011, volunteering for The Junior League and for St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport.

“I need to serve in Congress to assist extra folks fulfill the dream my great-grandmother had: that with exhausting work, you’ll have the chance to earn a superb residing, increase a household and retire with dignity — and also you’ll be capable of do it proper right here in Northwest Illinois,” Normoyle wrote on her web site, NormoyleforCongress.com. 

After 22 years as a meteorologist and broadcast journalist, Sorensen left his job with WQAD, Channel 8, in July.

Born and raised in Rockford, Sorensen, 46, graduated from Northern Illinois College with a Bachelor of Science diploma in communications and a minor in meteorology.

Sorensen is an advocate for the LGBTQ neighborhood, serving on the boards of Clock, Inc. and The Venture of the Quad Cities.

As a weatherman, Sorensen mentioned he earned the belief of the communities he served. He mentioned in November that his science and meteorology background made him uniquely certified to deal with the local weather change disaster.

“Local weather change coverage will get made on the federal degree,” he mentioned. “Native and state governments are nonetheless actually essential, however we’d like somebody with a science background talking in Washington.”

Litesa Wallace, 44, was born and raised in Chicago however moved to Rockford almost 17 years in the past.

Wallace earned a bachelor’s diploma from Western Illinois College, a grasp’s diploma in marriage and household counseling from Northern Illinois College and a Ph.D. in academic psychology.

She served as chief of employees to former State Rep. Charles E. Jefferson from 2011 to 2014 earlier than being elected herself as state Consultant for the 67th District from 2014 to 2019. Throughout her time within the state legislature, Wallace mentioned she “strengthened the kid care help program, fought towards meals insecurity, advocated for reasonably priced housing and fought for a $15 minimal wage.”

She co-founded the Rockford Anti-Racism Community and serves as a fellow for the Diversifying School in Greater Schooling Board.

“As a single mother, social employee and former state consultant, I do know the problem of discovering reasonably priced little one care and the impacts of the rising price of meals and lease on our households,” Wallace mentioned in November. “And that is why I’m working for Congress — to proceed the combat for working households in (District) 17. I’ve all the time mentioned that households are the bedrock of our communities.”

Marsha Williams was born in Joliet and is now a resident of Channahon. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science diploma in authorized research from Purdue International College and works as an admissions adviser on the 160 Driving Academy in Bensenville.

As a neighborhood organizer and activist, Williams turned energetic within the abortion rights motion in 2002 when she volunteered as an abortion escort for girls and arranged occasions to guard Deliberate Parenthood. She later would wish a late-term abortion when her unborn son died at 38 weeks of being pregnant.

She additionally has volunteered because the Minooka Group Excessive College alumni board chair from 2013 to 2016, served on the planning committee for the Daring City Renaissance Community from 2014 to 2017 and volunteered for the Chiditarod Basis, a nonprofit geared toward assuaging starvation via direct motion, from 2015 to 2017.

Williams mentioned she thought of herself one of many extra progressive candidates within the race, supporting the Inexperienced New Deal and common well being care. 

“Illinois (District) 17 deserves a consultant who will really arise for and be accountable to the folks, not company donors and lobbyists,” she mentioned in November. “Company PACs are going to be gunning for this open seat, however I’m not taking any of their cash.”

Esther Pleasure King, 35, is an lawyer from East Moline and small-business proprietor of her personal advertising agency. 

King is taking a second shot on the seventeenth Congressional District. Because the Republican nominee in 2020, she got here inside 4 proportion factors of defeating Bustos, dropping 52% to 48%.

Because the daughter of Christian missionaries, King lived together with her household in a transformed college bus throughout her childhood, later transferring to the U.S.-Mexico border.

She earned her regulation diploma and a grasp’s of regulation in taxation from Northwestern College in Chicago, starting her authorized profession as an affiliate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago. She was named to Crain’s Chicago Enterprise Journal’s annual “20 of their 20s” characteristic in Could 2016, whereas she was a companion with Summerset Group Communications.

After graduating from faculty, King moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, the place she served as an assist employee. She then joined the U.S. Military Reserves as a member of the Decide Advocate Basic (JAG) Corps, resulting in her relocation to the Rock Island Arsenal just a few years in the past.

“We’d like a battle-ready chief. We’d like a fighter who gained’t again down, somebody who is aware of that the residents of the seventeenth District matter greater than Washington, D.C., particular pursuits,” King mentioned when she introduced her candidacy in April 2021.

Charlie Helmick, 58, lives in East Moline along with his spouse, Shirley, and collectively the couple co-owns two Nation Monetary Insurance coverage franchises.

Helmick retired from FedEx after 29 years as a route supervisor and labored one 12 months for the TSA inside the Division of Homeland Safety.

Helmick mentioned he espoused conservative Republican values via decrease taxes, smaller authorities, robust borders and the assist of regulation enforcement and stiffer jail sentences.

“I’ve all the time needed to serve in some capability,” Helmick mentioned in April 2021 when he introduced his candidacy. “I needed to become involved and see if I could not make a distinction and get some illustration in our space for a change that I felt I wasn’t getting earlier than. I look ahead to the race.”