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by Josh Kalven
11:09am
Thu Jan 7, 2010
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IL-GOV: Sun-Times Endorses Quinn, Hynes Says He "Struck Out"

Pat Quinn

The Sun-Times is the first major daily newspaper in the Illinois market to endorse a candidate in the Democratic primary for governor today, throwing their support behind incumbent Pat Quinn.  From the piece: As Illinois' accidental governor, Quinn has had a ...

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by Adam Doster
2:31pm
Tue Jan 5, 2010

IL-GOV: New Ads From Hynes And Quinn

State budget

The race between Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic challenger Dan Hynes continues to heat up and the early release controversy is serving as the spark.

After blasting Quinn in a weeks-worth of interviews and filing
a second Freedom of Information Act request to obtain a ...

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by Adam Doster
3:26pm
Mon Jan 4, 2010
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An Opportunity For Broader Prison Reform

IL-Governor

Late last week, in the lull between Christmas and New Years, Gov.
Pat Quinn announced a complete overhaul of the state's unpublicized
"meritorious good time" early release program, known in the Corrections
Department as MGT Push. The program -- and the administrators in ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
2:42pm
Mon Jan 4, 2010

Campaign Videos Galore!

Election 2010

With the February 2 primary is four weeks away and voters just tuning into the various races, candidates across the state are quickly rolling out new TV commercials and web spots.

As the Chicago Current notes, Terrence O'Brien is the first Cook County board president ...

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by Josh Kalven
10:55am
Mon Dec 28, 2009
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Compare And Contrast These Budget Stories

State budget

Here is the Tribune's Rick Pearson today on the gubernatorial candidates' proposed budget fixes:

Among all the issues facing Illinois' next governor, there is no
greater divergence among the Democratic and Republican candidates in
the Feb. 2 primary than on ...

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by Josh Kalven
5:50pm
Tue Dec 22, 2009
7 comments

IL-GOV: Rasmussen Updates Poll, Hynes Courts Women, Personal PAC Endorses Quinn

Pat Quinn

Last Friday, we highlighted the latest Rasmussen poll on the Illinois governor's race and noted a strange oversight: While the polling firm tested Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes against GOP candidates Kirk Dillard, Andy McKenna, and Bill Brady, they forgot to include Republican ...

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by Angela Caputo
5:54pm
Fri Dec 18, 2009
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The AP Calls Out The GOP Guv Candidates

State budget

For some time now, we've been bemoaning the fact that the Republican gubernatorial candidates here in Illinois have largely gone unchallenged regarding their vague and overly simplistic plans for closing the state's multi-billion budget gap. Mike Lawrence of the Paul Simon ...

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by Josh Kalven
1:54pm
Fri Dec 18, 2009

IL-GOV: Rasmussen Poll, Early Release Flare-Up, White Endorses

Election 2010

Here's the latest from the Democratic gubernatorial primary ... New Poll Shows Quinn And Hynes Even Against GOP A Rasmussen survey released today suggests that both Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic challenger Dan Hynes would fare about the same against three of the ...

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by Adam Doster
11:40am
Wed Dec 16, 2009
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IL-GOV: Will High-Speed Rail Be A 2010 Campaign Issue?

Transportation

While there are a ton of policies on which local Democrats and Republicans disagree vigorously (from tax reform to health care to climate change to election reform), there is one subject that we didn't expect to become a campaign issue this year: high-speed rail.&nbsp...