ShareThisWednesday, November 01, 2006
Sixth Congressional District of Illinois
The candidates
Peter Roskam
Party: Republican
Age: 45
Career: State senator, teacher and lawyer
Political experience: Elected member of Illinois General Assembly in 1993; appointed to state Senate, elected to state Senate in 2000.
Family: Married, four children
Tammy Duckworth
Party: Democrat
Age: 38
Career: Staff supervisor at Rotary International; political science Ph.D. candidate at Northern Illinois University; major, Illinois National Guard, wounded in Iraq in 2004.
Political experience: First run for office
Family: married
The district
Location: Includes O'Hare International Airport and much of suburban DuPage County west of Chicago.
Demographics: About 75 percent white, according to the 2000 census. Only 4.3 percent of households are below poverty line, and 69.5 percent of jobs are white collar.
House vote: Republican Rep. Henry Hyde was re-elected to his 16th term in 2004 with 56 percent of the vote, his lowest total since his initial 1974 election.
Presidential vote: 2004 _ Republican George Bush 53 percent, Democrat John Kerry 47 percent.
2000 _ Republican George Bush 53 percent, Democrat Al Gore 44 percent.
