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Candidate for Illinois governor to be in Collinsville today

Republican candidate for governor, Adam Andrzejewski, will be at a luncheon at Porter's in Collinsville today from 11:15 to 12:45 noon for a meet and greet.

lunch reservations:  RSVP Sjoydaniel@gmail.com

Headline of the day

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Illinois prison in running to house Gitmo detainees

There's competition to house these guys? 

Ah.  Durbin

State Volley-ball finals feature two local teams

The Freeburg girls volley-ball team won the Illinois state championship today by beating Chicago Christian of Palos Heights in class 2A.

Breese Mater Dei was state runner up to Joliet Catholic.

It's good to see downstate teams compete so well.

Illinois high school Girls state champions-Fall 2009

Girls

Golf

Class A

1st-Metropolis Massac Valley

2nd-Bloomington Central Catholic

Class AA

1st-Homewood Flossmoor

2nd-New Trier

Tennis

1st-HInsdale Central

2nd-Deerfield

Cross Country

Class 1A

1st-Winnebago

2nd-Decatur St. Teresa

Local teams-Freeburg 5th place

Class 2A

1st-Springfield

2nd-Yorkville

Class 3A

1st-Palatine

2nd-Orland Park Sandburg

Volley-Ball

Class 1A

1st-Lanark Eastland

2nd-Mt. Pulaski

Class 2A

1st-Freeburg

2nd-Palos Heights Chicago Christian

Class 3A

1st-Joliet Catholic

2nd-Breese Mater Dei

Class 4A

1st-

2nd

Illinois high school Boys state champions-Fall 2009

Boys

Soccer

Class 1A

1st place-Elmhurst Timothy Christian

2nd-Waterloo Gibault

Class 2A

1st-Arlington Heights St. Viator

2nd-Peoria Notre Dame

Class 3A

1st-LaGrange Lyons

2nd-Lake Zurich

Local teams-Triad (Troy)-3rd place class 2A, Edwardsville-4th place class 3A

Golf

Class 1A

1st-Effingham St. Anthony

2nd-Mt. Carmel

Class 2A

1st-West Chicago Wheaton Academy

2nd-Normal University

Class 3A

1st-Arlington Heights St. Viator

2nd-New Trier

Boys Cross Country

Class 1A-Teams

1st-Sterling Newman Central Catholic

2nd-Canton

Class 2A

1st-Belvidere North

2nd-Normal University

Class 3A

1st-Naperville Nequa Valley

2nd-Wilmette Loyola Academy

Football

220-215

Close vote on the health care bill in the House.  Almost 2000 pages.

How did our local representatives vote?

Illinois

Costello      Yes

Shimkus      No

Missouri

Ike Skelton   No

Todd Akin    No

Russ Carnahan   Yes

Lacy Clay     Yes

Jo Ann Emerson   No

Blaine Leutkemeyer   No

Roy  Blunt   No

Baker's dozen in Illinois governor's race

13 candidates have filed with the Illinois board of elections to run for governor.

2-Green party candidates

7-Republicans

4-Democrats

All but one republican is from the Chicago area and two are actually from the same suburb, Hinsdale.

All demcrats are from the Chicago area

Illinois drivers to pay more

Maybe it can't technically be called a tax, but once again the people of Illinois will see more of their money going to the state.

Now Governor Quinn and the legislature have raised the cost of renewing drivers licenses from ten dollars to thirty dollars.  Not a lot in the scheme of things but...

The state of Illinois is raising taxes, fees and rates on just about everything they see to the point where no one will be able to live there.

New look for Capitol Fax

Illinois political writer, Rich Miller, has redesigned his site, Capitol Fax.  It takes some getting used to but there are lots of cool new ways to interact with him and others who visit the site.

Seeing is believing

The Chicago Tribune has a nice graphic on the new Illinois sales taxes I wrote about here.  Click to enlarge