{"id":37441,"date":"2016-03-14T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=37441"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:36:40","slug":"election-nears-for-davis-and-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/election-nears-for-davis-and-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Nears for Davis and Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Congressman Danny Davis and his challenger Thomas Day are nearing the end of their campaigns to represent the Illinois Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives. With no Republicans in the primary race, this election will likely determine who will be represent this section of the state in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Day and Davis have attended various events in the district to ramp up their final efforts to win the election.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 158940512 w=474]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: The Illinois Seventh Congressional District includes, the Loop, the Gold Coast, the West Side, part of the South Side, and the<br \/>\nnear west suburbs.(Map by U.S. Census. Additional labels by Patrick Martin\/MEDILL).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Martin Congressman Danny Davis and his challenger Thomas Day are nearing the end of their campaigns to represent the Illinois Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives. With no Republicans in the primary race, this election will likely determine who will be represent this section of the state in Washington. Day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":37449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election Nears for Davis and Day - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/election-nears-for-davis-and-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election Nears for Davis and Day - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Patrick Martin Congressman Danny Davis and his challenger Thomas Day are nearing the end of their campaigns to represent the Illinois Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives. 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