The 30th district includes all or part of the municipalities of Beach Park, Buffalo Grove, Green Oaks, Lincolnshire, Mundelein, North Chicago, Riverwoods, Wheeling, Vernon Hills and Waukegan.
[8] Link advised then-State Senator Barack Obama to not run against Bobby Rush in the 2000 primary for Illinois's 1st congressional district.
Local Democratic leaders appointed Adriane Johnson, a Commissioner for the Buffalo Grove Park District, to fill the remainder of his term.
He received endorsements from, among others, the Waukegan Police Benevolent Labor Committee[12] and Lake County Board Commissioner Diane Hewitt.
A criminal information file asserted that Link had significantly underreported his 2016 income, which included his salary as a state legislator and payment for lobbying work.