Former Speaker Dennis Hastert will announce tomorrow his intent to resign around 2:30 on the House Floor. This is yet another open seat for the Republicans to defend. Long expected, and more then once rumored to be announced, this looks like the real deal.
Currently the Democrats in the race are ’06 Nominee John Laesch, Businessman Bill Foster, and Lawyer Jotham Stein. Foster seems to be winning the endorsement race by a wide margin, but anything is possible. I didn’t have time to look into the money picture though.
The Republicans have as possibilities State Senator Chris Lauzen, and Mayor of Geneva Keven Burns. I haven’t had time to dig too deeply into this yet, but does anybody have any info an any of the Republicans?