Emanuel for Feigenholtz?

He hasn’t formally endorsed a candidate to take his old job, but is White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel not so secretly backing state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D) in next Tuesday’s special primary election to fill Illinois’ vacant Fifth District?

That’s sure what it looks like in this photo, snapped by the Chicago Tribune’s John McCormick, who spied a Feigenholtz yard sign outside Emanuel’s Chicago house.

Feigenholtz seems to have momentum on her side in the waning days of the race. Her campaign announced it had topped $900,000 raised, by far the largest sum among any of her rivals, and the Service Employees International Union has added to her support, dropping $250,000 into the district on her behalf over the last week.

Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley (D) has led most public polls, though by small margins and trailing far behind the number of undecided voters who remain in the race. And state Rep. John Fritchey has raised a good amount of money, too.

All three of the leading Democrats are on television in advance of the March 3 primary.

– Reid Wilson