Dr. David Gill, the Democratic nominee for U.S. House in Illinois’ 13th district in 2012, will run as an independent for the same seat in 2016. He is an emergency room physician. See this story. In 2012 he came within 1,002 votes of beating the Republican nominee, Rodney Davis. Davis is still in the incumbent and will run for re-election.

The 13th district includes Champaign, Decatur, most of Springfield, and extends west to the Mississippi River. Gill will need approximately 15,000 valid signatures. Illinois requires more signatures for independent candidates for U.S. House than any other states except North Carolina and Georgia.