Gov. Quinn crisscrosses state day before election

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The candidates for Illinois governor crisscrossed the state on the final full day of campaigning with Governor Pat Quinn and his Republican challenger Bruce Rauner in a dead heat.

Monday was incumbent Pat Quinn's busiest day in the entire 2014 campaign for Illinois governor, the tenth and final stop on a LaSalle Street parking lot for a rally.

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The entertainment made it easier Monday night for the crowd of several hundred supporters who waited for the governor who arrived 45 minutes after the 8 p.m. start time. Once here, Quinn repeated what he'd been saying during nine other stops earlier in the day.

"We can't match the money of the other side, they got more money than King Midas, you know that. Well, we got something they don't have, we got you. We got everyday people," he said.

The governor began and ended his final campaign day in Chicago with a fly-around through southern and central Illinois in-between. There, he made a final appeal to union members' working class voters downstate.

"I think the Republicans have underestimated the fact that there's lots of men and women working downstate who believe in the message of raising the minimum wage and certainly believe in union rights," said Dan Montgomery, International Federation of Teachers.

Democrats are encouraged by record early voting in the city and Cook County. But governor wants similar enthusiasm come on Tuesday.

"Everybody in nobody left out!" he said.

From a logistics standpoint, this is the most ambitious day in the governor's entire 2014 campaign. It involves ten stops, the first being Monday morning in Chicago.

"I like campaigning," Quinn said. "I like people and you know it's all about people."

After voting Tuesday, Quinn plans to continue his campaign on Election Day.