No, not that we've settled on whom to endorse; we haven't yet had that discussion. We did, though, agree that they're an unusually impressive pair. If only every Cook County (and city government and Chicago-area legislative) race could feature a two-party matchup of this caliber. One of Pfannkuche's strongest arguments was that one-party rule has contributed to public corruption here and that voters should elect a prosecutor of a rival party. He spoke about the paucity of public corruption cases that Alvarez and Attorney General Lisa Madigan have pursued: "Democrats here don't seem to like to prosecute other Democrats." It's an embarrassment, he told us (correctly), that citizens here have to rely on federal prosecutors to make the corruption cases that local prosecutorial talent rarely does.