Quinn to return to roots, to push consumer rights Former Illinois Gov. Patrick J. Quinn offered a preview Friday of his life after public office, delivering a speech on consumer rights to lawyers and students and also taking a shot at his successor. The Democratic governor, who lost to Republican Bruce Rauner in November, used his first public appearance since leaving office to give a keynote during a Loyola University Chicago School of Law panel on forced arbitration. He recalled his activist days helping start …