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Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

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About Mike Quigley

Michael Bruce Quigley ( KWIG-lee; born October 17, 1958) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district since the April 7, 2009 special election. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side and several of its western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He previously taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago.
Chicago Sun-Times political writer Fran Spielman has described Quigley as, "a political centrist with a progressive bent".