{"id":331591,"date":"2010-02-17T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/brosnahan-leaves-office-early"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:23:17","slug":"brosnahan-leaves-office-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331591","title":{"rendered":"Brosnahan leaves office early"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burke likely to be appointed to finish term <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

State Rep. James Brosnahan (D-Evergreen Park) abruptly ended his legislative career this week, retiring almost a full year before his term ends. <\/p>\n

While Brosnahan announced last fall he would not seek re-election to another two-year term, he was expected to serve the remainder of his current term, which ends in January 2011. Instead, he quietly left Springfield last week, filed a resignation letter and plans to focus more fully on his law practice. The city of Blue Island recently hired him as chief legal counsel. <\/p>\n

Brosnahan’s decision sets in motion a process to immediately replace him. The Democratic township and ward committeemen of the 36th District will vote on a candidate to fill the seat for now. Consensus is building around Kelly Burke, of Evergreen Park, who won the Democratic nomination Feb. 2. <\/p>\n

Burke beat a fellow Democrat, Michael Macellaio, who was supported by House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago). So far, Madigan is open to seating Burke, even though he fought hard against her during the primary. <\/p>\n

If she receives the appointment, Burke gains an advantage heading into the fall election, during which she’ll face Republican Richard Grabowski, of Hometown. She’ll have a few months of legislative experience under her belt, a leg up on fund-raising and a wealth of contacts. <\/p>\n

Burke said Wednesday she is interested but wants to take a few weeks off after a grueling primary. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Burke likely to be appointed to finish term State Rep. James Brosnahan (D-Evergreen Park) abruptly ended his legislative career this week, retiring almost a full year before his term ends. While Brosnahan announced last fall he would not seek re-election to another two-year term, he was expected to serve the remainder of his current term, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}