Petition filing for non-presidential and delegate candidates began at 8:00am. We’ll update races below throughout the day.
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Suburban businessman Rick Heidner has managed to launch a campaign for governor with no public announcement, no social media, no website, no platform, no media interviews, and never showing the candidate's face in public.
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Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey’s son, Zach, his daughter-in-law, Kelsey, and two of their young children, Vada Rose, 12, and Samuel, 7, were killed in a helicopter crash in Montana yesterday, according to the campaign.
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A story from D.C. newsletter Punchbowl Tuesday claiming Illinois Democrats are moving forward with mid-decade redistricting raised eyebrows among many statehouse types because, it came as a surprise that few were aware of.
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Senate President Don Harmon avoided a record fine, at least temporarily, after the Illinois State Board of Elections deadlocked along party lines to fine him nearly $10 million for what were deemed as illegal campaign contributions.
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Suburban Republican businessman Rick Heidner has formally filed campaign finance paperwork with the Illinois State Board of Elections to run for Governor.
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While Governor JB Pritzker is often considered one of the most progressive governors in the state’s history, he has found himself receiving rhetorical arrows from his left. And one of the top archers just got a promotion.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Schaumburg), long a prolific fundraiser who always seemed to be filling his campaign coffers for a future U.S. Senate run continues to raise, and spend, big money in the Democratic primary for Senate.
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Governor JB Pritzker Thursday largely brushed off questions based on his 2024 tax return that showed he made around $1.4 million in casino winnings last year.
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An Illinois State Board of Elections hearing officer has recommended Senate President Don Harmon pay all of the nearly $10 million fine he received for alleged campaign violations last year.
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Let’s be frank. There hasn’t been that much tangible policy discussion since lawmakers departed Springfield in the early hours of June.
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A U.S. District Court Judge in Chicago Thursday afternoon granted a request from state of Illinois and Chicago city officials to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois.
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After President Trump wrote on social media this week without evidence that Governor JB Pritzker “should be in jail” for “failing to protect [ICE] officers,” few elected members of the General Assembly appear ready to break from the leader of their party.
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We spent much of Tuesday asking lawmakers and other stakeholders what they were hearing about major issues in the hopper for veto session, which begins next week.
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Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) got her long-awaited primary challenge Tuesday.
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Governor JB Pritzker is taking policy and political risks by wading into the biggest fight of his political life with President Trump that, if things go poorly, could lead to a militarized state on the streets of Chicago and the state budget in tatters.
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Former Sen. Darren Bailey, the 2022 GOP nominee for Governor, who lost to JB Pritzker by 13 points, admitted Tuesday what most people already knew: he wasn’t planning on running for Governor in 2026.
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In a letter Tuesday to Governor JB Pritzker, House Speaker Chris Welch, Senate President Don Harmon and, other Democratic leaders, the Illinois AFL-CIO pulled out of the long-running “agreed bill” process.
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Governor JB Pritzker said Monday he expects military personnel to be dispatched to Illinois soon.
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One of the latest entrants into the race for Governor says reducing property taxes is a top priority, but would require forcing school districts to consolidate and to reduce pension benefits for high-wage educators, like superintendents.
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