WTVO-TV, Rockford, Anchor Steve Stadelman moderates the Illinois Gubernatorial debate from the Coronado Theatre in Rockford, Illinois. Candidates Representative Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) and Illinois ...

Blagojevich, Weinberg ’79, won the gubernatorial race with 52 percent of the vote to Republican Jim Ryan’s 45 percent. Madigan won 50 percent of the vote to Birkett’s 47 percent.

Like most voters, I’ve done my best to ignore the gubernatorial primary campaign for as long as possible. That’s partly because it has been going on forever. An entire layer of sediment… ...

In a studio before an audience, the candidates debated many issues, including education, toll roads, Internet filters, jobs, diversity, drug policy, treatment of mental disabilities, the state ...