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FILE - U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who announced his retirement from Congress on Monday, waves to guests in the balcony as he takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File

Chicago Politics Politics

Bobby Rush and his decades-long impact on Chicago

By  Steve Bynum and Dan Tucker
   

Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush says he’ll retire after 30 years representing Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs. Reset talks with a former political strategist for Rush as well as a political scientist. 

GUESTS: Delmarie Cobb, political strategist 

Robert Starks, director of the Harold Washington Institute for Research and Policy Studies at Northeastern Illinois University

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