This is the fourth and final installment of the Tribune Editorial Board’s endorsements for U.S. House primary races.

11th District

The winner of this six-way Republican primary has a tough opponent in November, Democratic incumbent Bill Foster, who we endorsed in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and is running unopposed in the Democratic primary.

Catalina Lauf is a young conservative from far northwest suburban Woodstock who works for her family startup and became an adviser at the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Trump administration in 2018. We think her star is rising, but our endorsement goes to Susan Hathaway-Altman, a business executive from Geneva who supports a rollback in federal spending and jump-starting the economy through tax cuts, which she says would help revitalize the farming and manufacturing sectors in the district. Also in the race is North Aurora village trustee Mark Joseph Carroll, Jerry Evans, a music shop owner from Warrenville, Andrea Heeg of Geneva, and Cassandra Tanner Miller from Elgin.

12th District

Democrats Homer “Chip” Markel of Carbondale and Joshua Qualls of Centralia are vying to face GOP incumbent Mike Bost from Murphysboro in the November general election. Markel, 61, is a retired Illinois corrections officer who’s fed up with Congress’ out-of-control spending and deficits in the trillions. He believes in fiscal responsibility, which makes him a sensible Democrat. Qualls, 37, is a private contractor who wants to change the voting age to 16 and create job growth through establishing more recycling programs. Our endorsement in this Downstate primary goes to Markel.

13th District

This district became an open seat after Illinois Democrats remapped it to exclude incumbent Republican Rodney Davis’ hometown. The new boundaries stretch from Champaign to the Illinois suburbs and exurbs of St. Louis, and include parts of Decatur and Springfield. In the Democratic primary, the clear choice is Nikki Budzinski, a labor activist who served as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s senior adviser on labor issues, as well as chief of staff for President Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget. We like that she’s a moderate, and that she helped Pritzker’s push to expand high-speed broadband internet across Illinois. Her opponent is David Palmer, a small business owner from Champaign who backs Medicare for All. Budzinski is endorsed.

Four candidates are vying in the Republican primary. Matt Hausman, 42, is an aerospace engineer who has also helped lead a Champaign nonprofit called Feeding Our Kids. We like the Pesotum Republican’s embrace of a bipartisan approach to tackle two of this nation’s most critical issues — crime and inflation. “I am running because I have had enough of the divisiveness and politicians using fear and outrage to win the next election,” Hausman told us. Well said. Also in the race: Terry Martin from Chatham, a former political journalist; Regan Deering, a Decatur philanthropist and granddaughter of the late Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas; and Jesse Reising, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor from Decatur. Hausman is endorsed.

14th District

The winner of this Republican primary will face Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood from Naperville, who is unopposed in her primary. Mike Koolidge, a 47-year-old conservative radio host from Rochelle, doesn’t win us over when he says the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is illegitimate and a waste of time. Neither does Oswego’s James Marter, 59 and chairman of the Kendall County Republican Party, who calls the Jan. 6 committee investigation a “sham and a fraud.”

Scott Gryder of Oswego, chairman of the Kendall County Board, also takes a dim view of the Jan. 6committee’s vitally important work, and that failure to set aside partisan politics disappoints us. However, as county board chairman, Gryder has reined in spending, provided tax relief to homeowners and small businesses, and helped Kendall County “rise to the top in growth among all Illinois counties,” he told us. He gets our endorsement. Also in the race is Jack Lombardi II of Manhattan in Will County and Jaime Milton of far northwest suburban Fox River Grove.

15th District

We endorsed Mary Miller of Oakland when she won this Downstate seat in 2020 following the retirement of GOP Rep. John Shimkus. We won’t do it again, not after she objected to the Electoral College vote on that fateful day Jan. 6, 2021, saying she felt the vote “did not uphold the Constitution.” She had also previously disgraced herself at a rally in Washington by quoting Hitler. And she makes the wild claim that the “UN is a corrupt globalist organization controlled by China.”

Her opponent, U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville, is in this primary after Illinois Democrats remapped him out of his 13th District. Though he supports Donald Trump, unlike Miller he accepted the results of the 2020 presidential election and voted to certify them. Davis has a history of working across the aisle to find legislative solutions. One example of that is legislation he introduced, and eventually signed into law, that allows employers to make tax-free payments to their employees’ student debt, up to $5,520 a year. The measure addresses student debt, but it also gives companies a way to attract new workers at a time when labor shortages persist. “I don’t shy away from working with everybody,” he told us. Davis is endorsed.

16th District

We endorsed U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood of Peoria in 2018 and again in 2020. But we won’t back him again. He was one of the House Republicans who signed on to a court brief in support of a specious, last-minute effort by Texas to overturn the 2020 presidential election by invalidating President Joe Biden’s victories in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin based on unfounded claims of fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 11, 2020, rejected the Texas lawsuit. We’re also not impressed with truck driver Michael Rebresh of Minooka, who tells us the Jan. 6 insurrection in fact “was not an insurrection” because there were “no tanks or machine guns, or wild men with grenades running through the halls of Congress.” Also in the race are Walt Peters, a retired aerospace engineer from Rockford, and JoAnne Guillemette, also of Rockford. No endorsement.

17th District

With U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos retiring, Democrats would like to hang on to this western Illinois district, which went for Trump in both 2020 and 2016. Illinois Democrats redrew the district’s boundaries to favor their party, and six Democrats are hoping to succeed Bustos.

Jonathan Logemann is a high school teacher and a Rockford alderman who served in Afghanistan and smartly thinks the U.S. needs to do more to help NATO allies wean themselves off Russian energy — in the short term through American oil and gas supplies, and in the long term through a gradual shift to renewable energy. He’s also right in calling right-wing Republican attempts in at least 19 states to restrict access to voting “deeply offensive.” He tells us his “‘roll-up-your-sleeves’ approach is what’s missing from Washington.”

Former state lawmaker Litesa Wallace from Rockford has legislative experience, and unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor in 2018 on Daniel Biss’ ticket. Others in the race: Jacqueline McGowan, a cannabis policy adviser from Palos Hills; Angie Normoyle, an Augustana College professor from Moline; former Rockford meteorologist Eric Sorensen; and Marsha Williams of Channahon, an admissions adviser for a driving academy. Logemann is endorsed.

On the GOP side, Esther Joy King is a 35-year-old lawyer from East Moline whose resume includes working as an aid worker for women’s rights in Afghanistan and as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps. She gave Bustos a run for her money in 2020, losing to the Democratic incumbent by a narrow 50% to 48% margin. She’s right when she says Congress must find a permanent solution for so-called “Dreamer” children who have grown up in America as the sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants. Her opponent, Charles Helmick Jr., also of East Moline, is a small business owner who speaks admiringly of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia who embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. King is endorsed.

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