Before his arrest, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich had reportedly been considering Schakowsky among at least six candidates to fill the vacancy.

Schakowsky was one of the first figures in Illinois to voice interest in running in a special election to replace Obama.

In March 2010 Schakowsky was appointed by Speaker Pelosi to President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, commonly known as the deficit commission.

In April 2009 Schakowsky pointedly criticized the tax day Tea Party protests, asserting that they were " an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3. 5 million jobs.

Schakowsky indicated interest in replacing Barack Obama in the United States Senate.

In response to concerns about electoral irregularities in the state of Ohio during the 2004 presidential election, Schakowsky was one of 31 members of the United States House of Representatives who voted not to accept Ohio's electoral votes.

The series has had numerous guest stars, which include: Don Knotts, Jessica Biel, Alec Baldwin, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Rick Springfield, Luke Perry, Farrah Fawcett, Vendela Kirsebom, Adam West, Dionne Warwick, Jack Sheldon, Mick Jagger, Richard Simmons, Joey McIntyre, Mr. T, Mark Hamill, Shaquille O ' Neal, Donny Osmond, Seth Green, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong, Michael Jeter, Chuck D, Jeffrey Tambor, Tia Carrere, and Laraine Newman.

*"' Round Springfield " – ( Jean and Reiss received story credit only ; the teleplay was written by Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimillia )

Not long after, Jeffrey O ' Neill, the Springfield D. A., tracked Dinah down in Europe and warned her that if she didn't stop impersonating Cassie, he would prosecute her.

Cassie was eventually widowed and living in Springfield, where Jeffrey now lived as well.

Deciding to get rid of Dinah once and for all, Jeffrey put her on a plane to Europe under guard, however, Dinah bribed a look-a-like to take her place while she stayed in Springfield.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ( born March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American author.

Paul Lynde was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where his fellow students included Cloris Leachman, Charlotte Rae, Patricia Neal, Jeffrey Hunter and Claude Akins.

* Bobby Conn is a musician from Chicago, Illinois. Conn was born as Jeffrey Stafford in New York

Parts of the Illinois River watershed have sparse vegetation including Jeffrey pine and oak and ceanothus species that grow in serpentine soils.

* Jeffrey Paul Smith ( born 1956 ), Illinois attorney

Most of these settlements were already in place when the Illinois Central built the South Kenwood Station in 1881 at what is now 71st and Jeffrey Boulevard.

These scholars include: Patrick Anderson ( UCSD ), Christine Balance ( UC Irvine ), Robin Bernstein ( Harvard ), Henry Bial ( Kansas ), Rachel Bowditch ( ASU ), Brandi Catanese ( Berkeley ), Renee Alexander Craft ( UNC ), Craig Gingrich-Philbrook ( Southern Illinois ), Brian Herrera ( UNM ), Suk-Young Kim ( UCSB ), Branislav Jacovljevic ( Stanford ), Jill Lane ( NYU ), Eng-Beng Lim ( Brown ), Paige McGinley ( Yale ), Jisha Menon ( Stanford ), Tavia Nyongo ( NYU ), Tony Perucci ( UNC ), Matthew Spangler ( San Jose State ), Jennifer Parker-Starbuck ( Roehampton ), Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. ( UMD ), Laurie Frederik Meer ( UMD ), Ramon Rivera-Servera ( Northwestern ), Theresa Smalec ( CUNY ), Shannon Steen ( Berkeley ), David Terry ( San Jose State ), Alexandra Vasquez ( Princeton ), Shane Vogel ( Indiana ), E. J.

Allison lived briefly during this period in Peoria, Illinois, where he signed briefly with Rumble Records, resulting in two Live Recordings, " Gonna Be a Live One in Here Tonight ", produced by Bill Knight and " Power Wire Blues ", produced by George Faber and Jeffrey P. Hess.

Jeffrey Steven " Jeff " Pilson ( born January 19, 1959, Lake Forest, Illinois ) is an American multi-instrumentalist best known for his stint in the heavy metal band Dokken.

* Lax, Jeffrey R. " Constructing Legal Rules on Appellate Courts.

Jeffrey Meldrum, on the other hand, said the limb proportions of the suspected juvenile in question were not bear-like, and stated that he felt they were " more like a chimpanzee.

Ian Anderson plays balalaika on two songs from the 1969 Jethro Tull album Stand Up: " Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square " and " Fat Man ".

Painter and Jeffrey argue that geography as a discipline was not and is not an objective science, rather it is based on assumptions about the physical world.

In this capacity, Brundtland adopted a far-reaching approach to public health, establishing a Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, chaired by Jeffrey Sachs, and addressing violence as a major public health issue.

Jeffrey Dahmer was indicted on 17 murder charges, later reduced to 15.

In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS ' Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

A 1992 study by Jeffrey E. Pfeifer of the University of Virginia on " The Psychological Framing of Cults " found that 75. 51 % ( 74 of 98 ) of participating individuals were familiar with the word " Moonies ".

These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers.

Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles on May 6, 1994 from then-owner Norman Braman for an estimated $ 185 million.

Jeffrey Richards interprets his low rank prior to becoming pope as an indication that Theodahad was eager to put a pro-Gothic candidate on the throne on the eve of the Gothic War and " had passed over the entire diaconate as untrustworthy ".

Building on the pioneering work of Schwinger, Gerald Guralnik, Dick Hagen, and Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, Jeffrey Goldstone, and others, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam independently showed how the weak nuclear force and quantum electrodynamics could be merged into a single electroweak force.

* Summer Solstice ( 2003 film ), independent feature film directed by George Fivas, based on the story " Atlantic Summer " by Jeffrey Gold

* Jeffrey McDaniel ( who was on numerous DC and California slam teams in the mid to late 1990s ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2003

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

The Group Experiment, which had been unavailable to English readers, is now available in an accessible translation by Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin on Harvard University Press, along with introductory material explaining its relation to the rest of Adorno's work and 20th century public opinion research.

The album ( released on Gigitone Records ) was produced by Jeffrey Foskett, who has worked extensively with Brian Wilson and played on Wilson ’ s 2004 Grammy-winning version of SMiLE.

Based on his work at Continental, Fastow was hired in 1990 by Jeffrey Skilling at the Enron Finance Corp. Fastow was named the Chief Financial Officer at Enron in 1998.

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

Similarly, Jeffrey Elman argues that the unlearnability of languages assumed by Universal Grammar is based on a too-strict, " worst-case " model of grammar, that is not in keeping with any actual grammar.