A former banker, an embalmer and a longtime professional wrestler each want your vote to replace the paratrooper-turned-minor league baseball player and teacher who ended up becoming one of the most popular elected officials in Illinois history.
It’s a wide range of experience on the ballot for Illinois secretary of state, perhaps only fitting for a sprawling office that oversees 21 departments and some 4,000 employees, running the gamut from driver services and organ donation to maintaining archives and policing the state Capitol.
