Teamsters Local 700 announces endorsements in contested Cook County judicial races

Teamsters Local 700, which describes itself as "the largest public employee local under Teamsters Joint Council 25, [covering] all Teamsters locals in Illinois and Northwest Indiana," has announced endorsements in contested Cook County judicial races for the forthcoming primary.

A complete list of Local 700's endorsements may be found here. Local 700 has not offered endorsements in the Supreme Court or Appellate Court contests. But in contested races for countywide and subcircuit seats, Local 700 has made these endorsements:

Circuit Court Vacancies

Pablo F. deCastro (Flannery, Jr. vacancy)
Neutral (Mitchell vacancy)
Edward Joseph Underhill (Murphy vacancy)
Debjani 'Deb' Desai (Propes vacancy)

Subcircuit Vacancies

Owens J. Shelby (7th Subcircuit - Solganick vacancy)
James V. Murphy (10th Subcircuit - Wojkowski vaccancy)
Kim Przekota (11th Subcircuit - Daleo vacancy)
Steve Demitro (14th Subcircuit - O'Hara vacancy)
Luciano "Lou" Panici, Jr. (15th Subcircuit - Demacopoulos vacancy)
Jeffrey G. Chrones (18th Subcircuit - Converted from Edidin vacancy)
Bridget Colleen Duigan (19th Subcircuit - Converted from Senechalle, Jr. vacancy)
Michael J. Zink (20th Subcircuit - Converted from Budzinski vacancy)

Local 700 also endorsed a number of subcircuit candidates running unopposed in the March primary, but who face Republican opponents in November, namely Alon Stein (12th Subcircuit - Dickler vacancy), Frank J. Andreou (12th Subcircuit - Quinn vacancy), James "Jack" Costello (12th Subcircuit - Schleifer vacancy), and John Hock (18th Subcircuit - Converted from Linn vacancy).

In other races of potential interest to many FWIW readers, Local 700 endorsed former Appellate Court Justice Eileen O'Neill Burke for State's Attorney and Mariyana T. Spyropoulos for Clerk of the Circuit Court.