A year before he left the assessor’s post, Hynes was tapped with heading up President Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign in Illinois, chairing what has become a routine staple of Illinois politics — the coordinated campaign which linked national and local Democratic candidate strategy and fundraising. So successful was the effort that Democrats, after two years as the minority, won back control of the Illinois House despite a Republican-drawn redistricting map. It also returned Michael Madigan to the speaker’s chair after the only two years he has not held the post since 1983.