From top left, Wesam Shahed, Patricia Joan Murphy, Sylvester Fulcher, Antoine Bass and Veronica Bolling-Franklin are running as Democrats in Cook County Board District 6. [Provided]

Five Democrats have filed to fill Comm. Donna Miller’s (D-6) seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners next year, as Miller is running for Congress to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), who is running for U.S. Senate.

The candidates that have filed for the primary in March include Sylvester Fulcher, Wesam Shahed and Worth Township Supervisor Patricia Joan “Trish” Murphy — the daughter of former 6th District Comm. Joan Murphy, who passed away from breast cancer in 2016. The candidates also include REALTOR Antoine Bass and Veronica Bolling-Franklin, a school board member for Elementary School District 159.