House Speaker Chris Welch aiming to get a relative elected, as his predecessor Michael Madigan did

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is working to get his wife ShawnTe Raines-Welch elected a Cook County judge — even going door to door to collect signatures from registered voters to ensure she can get on the June 28 Democratic primary ballot, sources say. | Justin L. Fowler / The State Journal-Register via AP

There’s a familiar ring to it — the Illinois House speaker using his political muscle to help get a family member elected to a plum political post.

But this time it isn’t former House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, who orchestrated the election of his daughter Lisa Madigan first to the Illinois Senate and then as Illinois attorney general.