Did Sean Casten run as an environmentalist? Yes. Is that why he won? Maybe.
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By Aaron Dorman Medill Reports Sean Casten was driven to run, and eventually win, the election in Illinois’ sixth congressional district, for one simple reason: Peter Roskam wasn’t listening to his constituents about the environment. Potentially carcinogenic air pollutants from a commercial sterilization plant in Willowbrook, declining water supplies and weather extremes causing floods due […]