Over the past few days, several more organizations have held endorsement sessions for the 5th Congressional District race: specifically, Northside Democracy For America (NDFA), Citizen Action/Illinois, and Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO).

Prairie State Blue blogger "Maven" reported on the NDFA session, which took place on Thursday night.*  On the first round of voting, the order was as follows: Tom Geoghegan (19 votes), Mike Quigley (14), Sara Feigenholtz (10), Jan Donatelli (7), John Fritchey (1).  The top two vote-getters then advanced to a second round of voting, where the results were fairly even, with Geoghegan received 19 votes and Quigley receiving 18.  Due to this split, the organization chose not to endorse.  Maven wrote: "[I]n the end, we like Mike, and we like Tom, and there will probably be members who work on all five campaigns that were nominated last night."

Citizen Action opted not to endorse any candidate in the race during their session yesterday.  We've heard from sources inside the room that Feigenholtz received the most support (around 40 percent), with Fritchey in second (with over 30 percent), Geoghegan in third (around 10 percent), and Quigley in fourth.

Also yesterday, IVI-IPO's members voted 31-8 in favor of Fritchey.  As Jeff Wegerson explained over at Prairie State Blue, this exceeded the 60 percent threshold necessary to receive an endorsement. (UPDATE: You can find the IVI-IPO candidate questionnaires here.)   

Finally, be sure to read this PSB post examining the various campaign operations in the 5th District.

*CORRECTION: This post originally stated that 550 people attended the NDFA endorsement session.  In fact, that many people showed up for the candidates forum on February 1 (which we attended) -- not the endorsement meeting last Thursday.