BEST POLITICIAN

Cory Jobe

Springfield Ward 6 Ald. Cory Jobe gets the nod in this category. One look at Jobe and you know the guy’s ambitious: impeccably dressed, always looking attentive and always showing up at the right neighborhood meetings. He’s as good as declared his candidacy for mayor in 2015, and he’s run even with the incumbent on the fundraising trail. What we like is his passion. He’s taken on sure-loser issues (mandatory trash pickup, anyone?) and he sometimes gets angry with his colleagues when he thinks they’re being silly. Even if he doesn’t end up in the mayor’s office, it’s a good bet that Jobe’s political career won’t end when he leaves the city council. Runner-up: U.S. Senator Richard Durbin