In second place came Thomas J. McCracken, chairman of the RTA, who oversees the nation's second-largest public transportation system, and praised as one of the state's 10 best legislators by Chicago magazine. The field includes a retired Air Force major general and highly decorated prisoner of war, John L. Borling; lawyer and successful entrepreneur, John Cox, whose charitable organization renovates homes for the low-income elderly and disabled, and a highly successful dairy owner and stock analyst, Jim Oberweis, whose Oberweis Report ranks in the top five of all stock investment letters by the Hulbert Financial Digest. Add to these the...