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Dawn Clark Netsch dies at 86 after Lou Gehrig's battle
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Mar 05, 2013 09:54am |
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| Category | Obituary |
| Media | TV News - WABC Channel 7 |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | March 5, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A longtime Illinois Democratic lawmaker, Dawn Clark Netsch, has passed away. Netsch was 86.
Last month, Netsch announced that she was battling Lou Gehrig's disease. Netsch served in the Illinois State Senate for 18 years beginning in 1972 and won the Democratic primary for governor in 1994, beating then-Ill. Attorney General Roland Burris and then-Cook County Board President Richard Phelan. Netsch lost the general election to Republican Jim Edgar. |
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