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Neville keeps seat in crowded primary for Supreme Court

By Local Government - The State Journal-Register Mar 18, 2020 | 7:50 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Supreme Court Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. has won the primary election to keep his seat on the state’s highest court, emerging from a field of a six other Democrats.No Republicans ran, making him the presumed winner in November for the 10-year term.Democrat Charles Freeman, who died earlier this month at 86, held the post from 1990 to 2018, when he retired. He was the court’s first black judge.Neville, who is black, was appointed […]