Eddie Corrigan topped Katie Miller Tuesday night in the 53rd District Republican primary battle to replace retiring Rep. David Harris (R-Arlington Heights).
With 96 percent of the vote counted, Corrigan registered 5,547 votes for 61.87 percent to Miller's 3,419 votes and 38.13 percent.
Miller based her entire campaign around a vow to lower taxes, arguing that income tax increases like the 32 percent one that was instituted as part of the new state budget particularly take their toll on the residents of her district.
“We need to rein in spending,” she previously told the North Cook News. “We can’t keep throwing money at the problems. Illinois needs more revenue, but it needs to come from new businesses and that won’t happen until we become a more business-friendly state."
As it is, Miller noted Illinois is the only state in the country to now have fewer people than it did at the turn of the new millennium. She reasoned that it all goes hand in hand with the state’s spiraling outmigration problem.
The 53rd House District includes part or all of Arlington Heights Mt. Prospect, Prospect Heights and Des Plaines.
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