Designed to Win: Political Buttons and Pins from the Past

Howlett/Hartigan 

https://go.openathens.net/redirector/illinoisstate.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/chicagotribune/newspapers/michael-howlett-ex-secretary-state/docview/283191275/sem-2?accountid=11578  

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/whats-the-deal-with-neal-hartigan/  

Dan Walker  

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dan-walker-20150505-story.html  

https://i-share-isu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_ISU/kt5co6/alma9912588126605845  

Jim Thompson 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/james-thompson-dead.html 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/15/18691508/james-jim-thompson-illinois-governor-republican-dead  

 Charles W. Brooks

https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000874  

Rod Blagojevich

https://www.nga.org/governor/rod-r-blagojevich/  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/rod-blagojevich-sentence.html  

Alexi Gianoulias  

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-mark-kirk-defeats-alexi-giannoulias-illinois-senate/story?id=12036711  

https://alexiforus.com/about/  

Charles Percy

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/politics/charles-percy-former-illinois-senator-is-dead-at-91.html 

Carol Moseley Braun

https://www.senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_Moseley_Braun.htm 

https://www.usadf.gov/board-of-directors  

Dick Durbin:  

https://www.durbin.senate.gov/about-dick-durbin 

https://www.ilsos.gov/publications/illinois_bluebook/ussenator01.pdf  

Jesse White

https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000282  

https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/library/heritage_project/home/chapters/a-new-era-for-the-state-library-the-1990s-and-2000s/jesse-white/ 

Robert Steigmann

https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/U-of-Illinois-Objects-to-TV-Ad-7047381.php 

https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/justice/43/Robert-J-Steigmann/justice/