URBANA – Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz, who handily defeated a 10-year incumbent in 2004, is facing a different contest this year: one from within her own party.
The 39-year-old Democrat is being challenged for her party's nomination by Alfred D. Ivy III, 36, an Urbana attorney with four degrees but fewer years of legal work experience.
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