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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Among the many (many, many) candidates filing in the next week to run for statewide office in the Feb. 2 Illinois primaries are two familiar faces whose campaign slogans might aptly be something like, “I told you…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee minutes ago passed a campaign-reform measure that would limit individual donations to a candidate to $5,000, and companies and unions to $10,000. But it’s already drawing the ire of reformers who say it’s…

Jackson

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Cheryle Jackson announced today she has raised $354,000 in the past month toward her bid for the Democratic nomination for Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat next year.

Jackson played up the number during a Springfield media event – while playing…

Blago, via The New Yorker

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Indicted and impeached ex. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been bumping around the national media so often lately that it doesn’t generally merit a lot of comment here at home.

But a piece in…

Earlier, colleague Kevin McDermott provided the blow-by-blow of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s spirited interview with Hardball host Chris Matthews. Above is the tape of yesterday’s show.

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Blagojevich

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is probably wishing right now that he’d just stuck to chatting it up on “The View.”

Blago, while making the national media rounds promoting his book “The Governor,” got his head handed to…

Hoffman

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - David Hoffman, the former Chicago Inspector General, is officially launching his bid for the U.S. Senate today in Chicago today.

Hoffman joins a high-profile field of fellow Democrats who will compete in February for the seat formerly held…

An autographed Blago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Anyone who is steamed at the thought of impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich getting rich from his new book, Jack Franks has a cheery reminder for you: If Blago is convicted of the charges…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois Senate committee this afternoon passed a landmark bill that would impose the first campaign contribution limits in Illinois history - which could fundamentally change the political landscape of a state that has seen its last…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In the latest indication of just how fervent Illinois’ budget-cutting battle this year has become, a group a Chicago-area activists has announced they’re staging a Statehouse hunger strike to protest proposed human-services cuts. I’m told this kind…