Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) announced Wednesday he won’t seek another term leading the Republican caucus and hinted he may make another run for statewide office.
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You’ve seen the canned tropes from candidates on Election Day. They’re “cautiously optimistic,” or “not taking anything for granted,” or “running through the tape.” But how do candidates really feel today? Months of hard work, fundraising, shoe leather, sanity, and spousal good will have all gone by the wayside just waiting for polls to close at 7:00 P.M.
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Election night is never the end of campaign season. It just seems that way.
It can be, if a jurisdiction or counties report a big enough difference between two candidates that even mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day won’t change the outcome.
Then came 2020.
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A Kane County restaurant is getting a big hand in its battle against Governor JB Pritzker’s order closing bars and restaurants to indoor service. The Illinois Restaurant Association is joining FoxFire Restaurant’s suit against Pritzker.
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There’s no shortage of underdog stories every election year. Some are downright quixotic. Others sense an opportunity conventional wisdom says isn’t there.
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Governor Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are announcing COVID-19 resurgence mitigations will be implemented in Region 2—North-Central Illinois—beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2020. The region has seen a 7-day rolling average test positivity rate of 8 percent or above for three consecutive days, which exceeds the thresholds set for establishing mitigation measures under the state’s Restore Illinois Resurgence Plan.
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A large swath of east central Illinois has been added to a COVID-19 mitigations mandate by Governor JB Pritzker. 21 counties are impacted by the latest rules, which close bars and restaurants to indoor dining beginning Monday.
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A source with knowledge of recent polling tells The Illinoize that the retention race for Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride as well as a battle for a southern Illinois Supreme Court seat are both neck and neck.
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Every time a Republican politician posts to social media about Governor JB Pritzker’s actions closing bars and restaurants to indoor service around the state, throngs of respondents voice their belief Pritzker does not have the constitutional authority to take such actions.
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Springfield, Jacksonville, Quincy, and much of west central Illinois are the latest areas to face additional mitigations from Governor JB Pritzker for rising COVID-19 positivity rates.
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As COVID-19 positivity rates climbed again in McHenry and Lake counties in far northeastern Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker added the region to the growing list of areas in the state banned from indoor dining and bar service. Meanwhile, some Republican leaders are criticizing Pritzker for closing bars and restaurants to indoor service, claiming he’s doing too much damage to the economy.
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Just a day after Governor JB Pritzker essentially put high school winter sports, like basketball “on hold,” the Illinois High School Association announced Wednesday it was moving forward with the upcoming season anyway.
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Governor JB Pritzker is closing bars and restaurants to indoor service in the City of Chicago.
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Governor JB Pritzker is in danger of losing his first major electoral battle, according to a new poll conducted for The Illinoize by Woodstock-based data firm Victory Geek.
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin says his office was forwarded 10 vote-by-mail applications under suspicion for election fraud. Berlin says all 10 of the applications were requested for deceased people.
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As Governor JB Pritzker defended accusations he’s hurting small businesses and family restaurants around the state, suburban Chicago restaurant owners are pleading with Pritzker to reverse course.
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As COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise, Governor JB Pritzker announced Monday morning bars and restaurants will close for indoor service beginning Wednesday morning in the Metro East region around St. Louis as well as suburban Cook County. Metro East is being pegged for high positivity while suburban Cook County is being put into mitigation for increasing hospitalization rates.
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As state officials moved half of Illinois’ 102 counties onto the COVID-19 warning list, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike broke down in tears Friday pleading with the public to wear a mask in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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In his now-daily COVID-19 news conference Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker said Illinois State Police had been “alerted” to be on patrol for bars and restaurants open to indoor service in defiance of Pritzker’s executive orders.
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