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Mike Quigley. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel's vacant seat in Congress has been filled. In a special election Tuesday, voters on Chicago's North Side elected another Democrat to take over.

Mike Quigley has served on the Cook County board for about a decade. Now he will serve in Congress in a seat historically known for its strong political personalities. The now indicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, who was convicted of corruption, both held the seat. Quigley says the voters elected him to help serve as a conduit of political change, despite the current political climate in Illinois.

QUIGLEY: They gave me something very special 10 years ago and they gave me something even more special tonight; that is their trust in what we do. And as you can tell and as you know, trust from the electorate is justifiably a very hard thing to get these days.

Quigley easily defeated his two opponents in the heavily Democratic district with 69 percent of the vote.
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