Question: In the 1950s, a man from Bloomington-Normal — Democrat Adlai Stevenson II — ran for president twice, only to be defeated by Dwight Eisenhower twice. So, at least in McLean County ...
"He's too young and he's traveling on the reputation of his father," a hostile Winnetka Republican said recently of Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of Illinois.