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Bill Brady's Race For Governor: 'The People In Chicago And The Suburbs Don't Know Him At All'

Bill Brady's Race For Governor: 'The People In Chicago And The Suburbs Don
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Senior Editor, DNAinfo.com Chicago

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As Bill Brady made his way through a crowded ballroom at the Hilton on Michigan Avenue the other evening, heads did not turn to glimpse a political big shot. The Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, at least for now, is an unfamiliar face in the city.

Mr. Brady, a state senator from Bloomington who won the primary without running a single advertisement in the Chicago market, thrust out his hand and introduced himself to anyone who cared to chat at the dinner for construction executives.

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