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L. Tammy Duckworth, Democratic Congressional candidate, had hardly maneuvered her wheelchair up to the table at the Bakers Square restaurant. Duckworth, 38, a natural campaigner whose compelling personal saga has made her the headliner of the Democrats' new strategy of running military veterans to try to blunt Republican advantages on national security, has endorsements from the party stars who recruited her and from all four major newspapers in the Chicago region. Duckworth said that she could not leave her Hoffman Estates home because of the investments made in retrofitting it after her injuries, and that the crucial issues of health care and education do not change across Algonquin Road, the major artery that forms a district line.