All right, everybody—time for a political quiz! For ten trivia points and a bucket of fried chicken at the restaurant of my choosing, who’s the most progressive-voting Democrat in the General Assembly?

Toni Berrios is the daughter—and the pride and joy—of Cook County Democratic chairman Joe Berrios, who also happens to be county assessor.

Actually, it wasn’t hard to imagine that he could at least give her a good run. The district covers parts of Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Belmont Cragin, and Portage Park, and the Logan Square precincts in particular are flooded with hipsters of Guzzardi’s generation.

“The recount was straight out of The Matrix,” he says. “It was held at this big warehouse on Pershing Road. You go into this tiny little room that leads into this tiny little elevator that opens onto this tiny little door, and when you open that door you step into an enormous warehouse with crates that are filled with ballots from various elections.

He didn’t hear from Chairman Berrios. “The only time I met the assessor was at the [Democratic] slating meeting for this race. I made my case to the committeemen. I said, ‘We can have a really difficult and costly primary where we distract ourselves. Or you can be for party unity and drop Representative Berrios and endorse me.’”

And believe it or not, she endorsed a proposal that would automatically return surplus funds in the tax increment financing program to our dead-broke schools, from which the mayor diverted the property tax dollars in the first place.

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