Jill Rose Quinn made history Tuesday night when she cleared the path to becoming the first openly transgender person elected to office in Illinois.Quinn, 65, won the two-candidate Democratic primary race to fill the Kevin M. Sheehan vacancy on the Cook County Circuit Court. Based on unofficial results, she earned 78% of the vote.Without Republican opposition in the November general election, Quinn is the presumptive winner in that race, too. Judges elected in November take their judicial oaths in early December.“It …