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With the recent announcement by Republican Andrew McKenna that he's entering the fray for Governor in next year's election, the Illinois gubernatorial election is heating up. With the primary election on February 2nd 2010 quickly approaching, plenty of candidates have stepped up to fight for the right to lead Illinois. Here is a quick run down of some of the major candidates:

2010 may be a wild election year in Illinois. That is, if anyone can make up their minds about what they want to do. 7th District Congressman Danny Davis hopes Roland Burris will make up his mind already about running for re-election. Davis told Chicago Public Radio on Monday that Burris's decision will affect his decision about whether to run for Senate next year. "That would play seriously in the thinking of any African American who may be interested," he said. "I'm hoping that the senator will hurry up and publicly let people know whether he intends to run for election." Well, we already know how Burris is leaning.

The Doomsday Clock for Roland "The Lord's Senator" Burris just clicked closer to midnight. A recently released Zogby International poll [.pdf] shows that support for Burris in the 2010 senatorial race stands tall at 5.3 percent. In most elections, we're pretty sure Snoopy gets more voter support than that. Alexi Giannoulias is the frontrunner in the senate race with both Dems and independent voters - although Giannoulias leads with independent voters by only 0.3% over Mark Kirk.

• Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor arrest stayed these fundraisers from the swift completion of their appointed money collecting for then-governor Rod Blagojevich.
• Quinn has company: Republican state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington has entered the 2010 race for governor.
• Another reason to not party in Wrigleyville: you'll deal with people like James Burns who, in a drunken rage, hijacked a taxi.
• Chicago Police have charged Robert Branch with assaulting seven different women in area parking garages.

She's the woman who could have been Governor. But in 2006, Judy Baar Topinka, longtime Illinois politician and State Treasurer under Jim Edgar and the not-convicted-yet George Ryan, was defeated in the Gubernatorial race by incumbent Rod Blagojevich. And just look where that's gotten us. While most of our day-to-day political thoughts right now are focused on the presidential election, we're also in the beginning of the race for Illinois Governor in 2010. So what does Topinka think about how the state is being run? No surprise here - she isn't much of a fan of Blago - but what about beyond that? Who's going to step up for the Republican party in two years? Who's going to try to replace G-Rod in the Democratic party? And is there any shot at getting him removed before 2010? All these answers after the jump.

Jim Oberweis never ceases to amaze us. The man who isn't a politician, but plays one during election season, is upset that Bill Brady and Ron Gidwitz will not drop out of the Republican race for governor because he believes they are taking away the votes he needs to beat frontrunner Judy Baar Topinka. Oberweis' solution? The three men should all draw straws to see which one can stay in the race. Seriously. Oberweis' campaign...

The George Ryan trial will soon be over. Closing statements are finished, and the case now lies in the hands of the jury. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the jury room! The prosecution said Ryan and his friends and family enjoyed "12 years of Christmas" after basically putting a "for sale" sign on his office. They also contend he is guilty of "breach of public trust" for covering up corruption when...

Yesterday’s GOP gubernatorial debate between candidates Bill Brady, Ron Gidwitz, Andy Martin, Jim Oberweis, and Judy Baar Topinka on Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight seemed like any other debate—Republicans good, Blago bad. You can listen to the debate online. However, if you really want to be entertained, skip forward to the last few minutes when the debate was officially over and the candidates took questions from the media, or watch the video here or...

First Governor Blagojevich irritated his political opponents with his All Kids Insurance program, and now he is back at it with his Preschool for All program, which would allow all three and four year olds in the state to attend state-funded preschools. Blago estimates Preschool for All will cost $135 million over the next three years and would enroll around 140,000 students. Blago estimates closing corporate tax loopholes and money from Illinois’ special purpose...

Last night was the big Republican debate between gubernatorial candidates Judy Baar Topinka, Bill Brady, Ron Gidwitz, and Jim Oberweis. We were entertained, mostly by the horrible lighting that made the candidates look tired and haggard, but not enlightened. Too bad the earlier run-in between Brady and Oberweis was not televised. The debate focused on jobs, the economy, and the business climate in Illinois. The candidates agreed on most of the topics—the need to...

Clear your schedule on Wednesday evening. Four Republican candidates for governor, Bill Brady, Ron Gidwitz, Jim Oberweis, and Judy Baar Topinka, will be debating live on CBS 2 at 6 PM. We appreciate CBS 2 televising the debate tomorrow night, but we are incredibly disappointed that they are not letting the public send in any debate questions. As if that wasn't bad enough, they didn't even offer us any rules for drinking games. Personally,...

Governor Blagojevich was in Washington DC earlier this week in an attempt to turn his All Kids insurance plan into a national program. All Kids, which offers low cost health insurance to Illinois children, was signed into law by Blago last month, and is scheduled to officially begin in July of 2006, although pre-registration is currently underway on the program’s website. All Kids has garnered national attention as other states and the national government...