Favorite sons call in big guns in high-priced race for Senate

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Interesting piece on who is getting money from whom in the Illinois Democratic race. Hull may be the multi-millionaire, but Obama has some good, big backers too...

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They are fortunate sons. In the 2004 race for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Dan Hynes and Republican Andrew McKenna Jr. are the establishment's candidates.
Hynes is the two-term state comptroller. McKenna is president of the Schwarz Paper Co., which is based in Morton Grove, and chairman of the Illinois Business Education Coalition.
Both are sponsored by influential fathers. Former Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes, who provided tax breaks to the rich and powerful, is counting on these friends to give generously to his political heir.

North Shore businessman Andrew McKenna Sr., who has served as chairman of the board for the Cubs, White Sox, and the University of Notre Dame, also chaired Chicago Metropolis 2020 for the Commercial Club. Just as the elder Hynes is pulling strings on his son's behalf, the elder McKenna is lining up the power elite for his namesake.

The rest of the article goes on to detail most of the other candidate's money men and women, but here is one more snip (too long to post everyone and abide by copyright rules):

State Sen. Barack Obama, who is regarded by the Hynes camp as a threat, is consolidating his base in the African-American community and among lakefront and suburban independents. His finance committee includes real estate developers Penny Pritzker and Tony Rezko; philanthropist Irving B. Harris; former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow; John Rogers, chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Capital Management; former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Abner Mikva; former Democratic National Committeewomen Joanne Alter and Marjorie Benton; Bettylu Saltzman, former Chicago chief of staff to Sen. Paul Simon, and former Sara Lee chief executive officer John Bryan.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/neal/cst-edt-neal20.html