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The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Jim Oberweis campaign will be announcing “a major endorsement” today, and that that endorsement will be from Dennis Hastert. Oberweis is running for the 14th Congressional District seat that was vacated when former Speaker of the House resigned earlier this year. Although Hastert endorsed Oberweis for US Senator in the 2002 Republican primary, Jack Ryan won that race, later withdrawing after his (sexy) divorce files were unsealed. An...

In this day and age of the media destroying politicians, it's become par for the course for the press to dig up something embarrassing about a candidate to try and discredit them. In some cases, it's worked (like with Jack Ryan). In others, it hasn't been so effective (remember the breathless media reports that Dubya had a DUI? We didn't think so.) Barack Obama isn't immune to this either. First it was the erroneous and now discredited charges that he had studied in a foreign-sounding and America-hating radical Muslim madrassa in Indonesia. Even when they aren't making this shit up, nothing seems that damning: Tony Rezko owns a vacant lot next to the Obamas, and they make him build a fence between the two parcels of land. How about the intern that Obama's office hired for the summer that was connected to Rezko? And then yesterday, we get word that an investor helped Obama raise a bunch of money when he was running for the Senate. Even the right-wing media has tried to stir up discontent with op-ed pieces that stretch really hard to connect dots that are tenuous at best. To the right wing of this country, Barack Hussein Obama must seem like some kind of fantastical leftist wet-dream. No matter how you try to pick the guy apart, he remains popular, and nothing seems to stick to him.

Jim Oberweis is launching another campaign for statewide office, this time for governor. Depending on who you are, that news brings tidings of joy for the Great Conservative Cause, anger because of his anti-immigrant positions, or anticipation for the almost guaranteed free ice cream at campaign stops and county fairs across the state. Chicagoist, on the other hand, just shakes its head in confusion. Confusion because last time out of the gate, not only did...

On January 26th, 2005, Rep. Larry McKeon, D-Chicago, introduced a bill to the Illinois House that would permit the use and possession of marijuana for registered individuals diagnosed with a "debilitating medical condition" by a physician. ">The Medical Cannabis Act would amend Illinois' current Cannabis Control Act that sets penalties for the sale, use and possession of Mary Jane. Under Section 11, the Cannabis Control Act allows for the creation of a state-sanctioned medicinal marijuana...

Newcity's annual Best of Chicago polls are officially open. You only get to vote once, so choose carefully. Polls close September 12.

The race for U.S. Senate got rolling this weekend with two parades, some words traded, and commercials starting to air.

There is one reason why Alan Keyes was a great choice for U.S. Senate nominee by the Illinois Republican Party: The debates should be a lot of fun. Democratic Senate Nominee, Barack Obama is a thoughtful and excellent speaker, and Alan Keyes is a master of flourishing statements. But when Obama was matched up against the lesser speaker, former GOP nominee (and sex clubber) Jack Ryan, he called for six debates. Now, Obama only wants...

It is now a fact: Barack Obama will be the next Senator from Illinois. The Illinois Republicans haven't managed to find a replacement for Jack Ryan, and so the Democratic National Party has plucked Obama to deliver tonight's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Chicagoist has seen Obama speak before, and you can be sure that tonight's speech will be nothing less than a barnburner. Born in Hawaii, raised in Kansas and...

Cementing his place as the hot "up-and-comer" of the Democratic party, Illinois senate candidate Barak Obama will give the keynote address at the Democratic Convention on July 27.

Electoral politics is very much a money game these days, so yesterday Democratic Senate Nominee Barack Obama's campaign announced that in the last fundraising reporting period, Obama raised $4 million, and will report $3 million on hand. That's a record for any Illinois U.S. Senate candidate, and translates to the campaign raising $43,956.04 a day, between April 1 and June 30.

See, he�s a good guy. That "downright upright" slogan still makes sense.

"Three Ryans and you're out," was Saturday's most pithy comment, uttered by McHenry County Democratic Chair, John Bartman. Following the much anticipated resignation of GOP Senate candidate, Jack Ryan on Friday, the Illinois Republican Party is desperately searching for a replacement candidate.

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Sources are saying that sex-pest Jack Ryan is about to drop out of the Senate race. He apparently told state Republican officials that he's dropping out, and details should be emerging in the next few hours. When I say "shit storm" you say "Ryan."

Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jack Ryan's campaign has officially headed into "Goat Stage" (scroll to bottom) as the GOP Illinois Congressional Caucus gathered in Washington yesterday to determine not only whether or not Ryan should drop out, but who should take his place. Through all this, two brave politicians with nothing to lose, Sen. Peter Fitzgerald and former Senate candidate Blair Hull have stepped up to point out the inconsistancies of the Illinois GOP....

Erstwhile Beleaguered Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jack Ryan didn't resign last night, in fact he held a press conference where he came out swinging. When asked about numerous GOP leaders turning their backs on him, including the Cook County Republican Party, Ryan said, "If former Governor Edgar and speaker Hastert say, Jack, we'd like you to get out of the race, what do you do? I am in the race to win in November and...

Jack Ryan is all over the place today. Yay, Illinois politics. Wonkette is reporting that Dennis Hastert has cancelled his appearance at Ryan fundraiser later this week. Also, there's some talk of a possible press conference tonight at 7 p.m. for Ryan to drop out of the race. Buzz buzz buzz.

By now everyone in Illinois has heard the "avant-garde" Parisian club allegations made in Jack and Jeri Ryan's divorce proceedings (also check out the Smoking Gun). The shock is still rippling through the state, and is now reaching the Beltway. The next few days will be precious for Jack Ryan, since how he manages the damage control will make or break his damaged campaign's future. Chicagoist sees two important points in how Ryan is dealing...

Yesterday the Los Angeles Superior Court released the divorce files of Republican Senate Candidate Jack Ryan and actress Jeri Ryan, revealing allegations that Jack Ryan tried to get his then-wife to have sex with him in public at various sex clubs. But the pain for Ryan doesn't stop there.

In what's sure to be a much talked about news story in coming days and weeks, files unsealed today relating to GOP Senate candidate Jack Ryan's divorce from actress Jeri Ryan reveal some juicy details, including allegations that Jack Ryan took her to sex clubs on a number of occasions and tried to pressure her into "perform[ing] a sexual act while others watched."

Everyone knows divorce is bad. Bad for you, bad for me, bad for the kids, bad for society. And as you may have heard, Republican U.S. Senate Nominee Jack Ryan is divorced from none other than The Borg Babe, Jerry Ryan. Ryan and Ryan have a child, and for various reasons, they agreed to seal some of the records of their divorce proceedings. Lawyers for both of the parties have said that the contents would be damaging to their child, and so they go their seperate ways.

He�s Illinois� newest celebrity, video-camera-toting, senate-candidate-stalking, Justin Warfel. �The Jack Ryan for Senate aide actually gets paid to follow Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Barack Obama across the state, and to video tape his every move. �Oppo research is a plum job for ambitious young campaign staff, and this kind of thing isn�t all that unusual in major campaigns these days. �But Warfel has gotten too close for Barack�s comfort, so Chicago City Council mover-n-shaker Ald. Ed Burke (14th) wants to fix that by creating a 20-foot �zone of personal privacy� around anyone who doesn�t want to be photographed. �We at Chicagoist immediately see benefits to this new ordinance, since we are constantly dragged down by our many fans attempting to photograph our every move. �Imagine this conversation: