Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Rich Whitney, the Illinois Green Party’s 2010 candidate for governor who earned over 10% of the vote in 2006, has released a detailed working paper with the title “How we can solve the budget crisis in Illinois and build a full employment economy with good jobs for all [...]

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Ballot Access News:
Columnist Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times reports here that Forrest Claypool, a Cook County Commissioner, may run for Cook County Assessor this year as an independent. Scroll down to “Scoopsville.” Claypool would need 25,000 signatures by June 21.
Claypool is a former Deputy State Treasurer of Illinois, and a former head of the [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
GREEN PARTY CONDEMNS HOUSE BILL 6000, CALLS FOR ALL CHICAGO ALDERMEN TO DISAVOW AND REJECT “MACHINE PROTECTION ACT”
On February 23, Democrats advanced House Bill 6000, which would limit
potential challengers in future aldermanic elections in Chicago.  The
bill significantly raises signature requirements in every ward, and
also gives well-financed, entrenched aldermen a new way to get
opponents [...]

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Green Party candidate for Illinois governor Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for US Senate in Illinois LeAlan Jones, and Green Party candidate for Cook County Board President Tom Tresser all appeared on the PBS program Chicago Tonight on Wednesday.  You can watch their appearance below.

H/T to Green Party Watch.

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Chicago Sun-Times columnist writes (you can read the full column here):
Huckelberry, 33, chairs the Illinois Green Party, and he sees a tide slowly turning its way.You might think that sounds ridiculous but hang on.
Illinois has had only a short courtship with the Greens since they fielded their first slate of statewide candidates in 2006. And [...]

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In a piece in the Sun-Times Media group of newspapers, the winners of the primary in Illinois’ fifth congressional district were all looked at on the night they won their respective primaries.  On February 2nd, there was a statewide Democratic, Republican, and Green primary.  What is noteworthy about this piece is that they give equal [...]

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Rich Whitney, the Green Party candidate for governor in Illinois, is currently polling in between three and four percent in two new Victory Research polls.  The first one can be viewed here, and the second one here.  The first one is between the current Democratic Governor, Rich Whitney, Republican Kirk Dillard, and “Don’t Know/Undecided,” while [...]

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From the News-Gazette in Illinois:
llinois Democrats have a gubernatorial candidate favored by only half the members of his own party, who faces a difficult budget battle this spring and – for now – is stuck with a running mate who is a political nightmare…
The Republican ticket has a gubernatorial candidate favored by 20 percent of [...]

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On February 4th, the Illinois newspaper the Southern ran a piece featuring the Green Party’s reaction to Tuesday’s statewide primaries in Illinois.  The Greens did have a primary, but most of the candidates running were uncontested.
“I’m in the race to win it and I think that’s entirely possible, given the record level of disgust with [...]

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Green Party candidate for Congress in Illinois Matt Reichel – who has won his primary since this article was written – was featured in an article by the Sun-Times Media recently.
Like most Greens the onetime antiwar activist and campaigner for Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential run would like to wean the country off of [...]

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This past Tuesday, there were statewide and local primaries across Illinois.  Since the Green Party is an established party in Illinois, they had primaries for various seats.  On a statewide level all of their primaries were uncontested, with only one person running, but various congressional races and other races had two or more people running.  [...]

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The Green Party primary in Illinois’ ninth congressional district got some coverage from the suburban Chicago Journal & Topics newspaper group.  There is little difference on the issues between Simon Ribeiro and Moe Shanfield, says the article, but Shanfield hopes to push the Democratic Party in a progressive direction, while Ribeiro plans to run a [...]

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On Wednesday, January 13th at 3:30pm, in Carbondale Illinois, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will hold a press conference to respond to Governor Pat Quinn’s State of the State Address.

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Today early voting started in Illinois’ various primary elections.  Aside from the Democrats and Republicans, the Green Party is ballot qualified and will be having primaries for various seats.  This includes congressional candidate Matt Reichel, who got about seven percent of the vote as the party’s nominee in a special congressional election in 2009, and [...]

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On Tuesday, candidates for Cook County Board President will be debating in a forum about the county’s health system.  Included in the forum will be Green Party candidate Tom Tresser.

IF YOU GO
What: Cook County Board presidential candidates will offer views on the county-run health system’s future.
When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Where: First United Methodist Church [...]

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