According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from the day George Ryan took office as governor in January 1999 through the last year of the administration of Rod Blagojevich in 2008, a net number of 637, 979 former Illinois residents moved out of the state and have not returned or been replaced by others moving in.

Illinois now ranks 48 of the 50 states in net migration. California and New York lost more people, more than 1.4 and 1.7 million respectively.
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Republican candidate for LG Jason Plummer drew the line in the sand against releasing his individual tax return to the public weeks ago, and he’s not budging, no matter how hard the media pushes.  In an interview with Associated Press, he said:
“I don’t think a person’s economic status, their financial status, should be a standard for whether or not they can run for office,” Plummer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve never voted for anyone because they’re rich or poor, white collar or blue collar. I vote on the …

From the Illinois Review
The Illinois House of Representatives is considering a key vote right now. Senate Bill 2494 would save thousands of children from Chicago’s worst schools by giving them a voucher allowing them to attend the school of their choice.

This program has been successful in other states, and it won’t cost downstate or suburban schools any money. After years of your tax dollars going to failing schools, this bill will also hold Chicago Public Schools accountable for their performance.
Is your legislator standing with the kids who need help, or …

I have just returned from an outstanding GOP unity event led by Pat Brady.
My enthusiasm for this year and its opportunity to serve the people of Illinois is growing in light of the extraordinary ticket we nominated and situation we face.
The GOP gubernatorial race appears to be on its way to amicable resolution.  Why?  Because Kirk Dillard, Bill Brady and (no relation) Pat Brady are class acts who know that first, Illinois’ election administrators owe GOP primary voters and the people of Illinois a clean and solid count.
In other words, they are declining …

Mark Kirk was the only Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted Friday night for HR 2454,  commonly referred to as “Cap and Trade” or a “Global Warming” bill. The federal legislation taxing the use of energy, passed by a mere seven votes, eight of which were Republican votes. Biggert, another Republican congresswoman who often votes with Democrats on social issues, was a question until she spoke on the House floor Friday against the Waxman-Markey bill.
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The Illinois Review gets an preview of how stories unfavorable to Rahm Emanuel will be squashed if they are not part of the official Cook County Democratic Party storyline.
Illinois Review has received an incredible amount vile hate email, comments, and phone calls because we had the nerve to ask questions about Rahm Emanuel’s property taxes. In fact, for the first time in our history we had to close the comment section of two posts because it was being overrun with malicious remarks.
Indeed, the thuggery of the Left and their political …

The Sauerberg campaign isn’t happy about how the State Journal-Register endorsed Dick Durbin this morning. Calling the state capital’s newsrag an “ultra-liberal newspaper,” Dr. Sauerberg is especially appalled the SJR said Durbin “had the courage” to refer to our U.S. troops as “Nazis.” We have to agree with Sauerberg’s outrage.
How could a Midwestern state with common sense, hard-working citizens elect such a treacherous man to represent our state? From the Sauerberg campaign: