CRYSTAL LAKE – Primary night was more than usually busy for McHenry County Democratic Chairman Tom Cynor. The party chairman was at the McHenry County Government Center awaiting the first election returns at 7 p.m. Tuesday when his wife, Kathy, called to tell him that labor contractions were beginning.

Helping the family out became a party project. Mary Margaret Maule, County Board District 4 chairwoman, drove from Johnsburg to watch the Cynors’ 5-year old son, Quinn. Meanwhile, at Northern Illinois Medical Center, Dr. Mary Riggs, wife of former Democratic Chairman Patrick Ouimet, was the delivering physician.

Cynor missed the party’s results event at Govnor’s Pub in Lake in the Hills, but he “had CNN on during the delivery, and I was able to keep track of the local races on the Web at the hospital. … Baby girl Cynor [name still to be determined] was delivered when the California results were coming in from the West Coast [2:10 a.m.].”

The newest Cynor weighed in at 6.5 pounds and was 19.5 inches long.

Meanwhile, local Democrats were enjoying their best primary results in recent memory as 33,421 county residents voted in the Democratic primary. A total of 31,211 residents took Republican ballots.

Proud papa Cynor said, “It really is the birth of a new day in McHenry County.”