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Article: Hartigan seeks $1 million for '90 bid
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 8, 1988
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In preparation for a 1990 bid for the Illinois governorship,
Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan is seeking to raise a $1 million
political war chest by the end of the year.
Hartigan, making his third attempt to win a Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, is expected to collect about $400,000
Wednesday night at a fund-raising reception at the Chicago Hilton and
Towers.
In his two previous gubernatorial campaigns, Hartigan withdrew
in favor of better-known candidates, former Secretary of State
Michael J. Howlett in 1976 and former Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III in
1986. Hartigan has assured political allies that he will not abandon
his candidacy next time.
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