Polling firm Ogden & Fry released a detailed poll Monday laying out multiple questions on abortion.
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Radio host Dan Proft, who is running a PAC funded by billionaire Richard Uihlein, said he had a new poll for his organization showing Sen. Darren Bailey leading Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin by seven points.
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I had maybe ten texts after the debate from people wanting to know who I thought “won” the debate.
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WLS offered all five candidates who were physically present at the debate Thursday (Jesse Sullivan was remote after testing positive for COVID-19) the opportunity to speak with assembled media.
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Richard Irvin, the Aurora Mayor and presumed frontrunner in the GOP gubernatorial race, dodged attack after attack from competitors in the June 28 primary Thursday night in the first televised debate featuring all six Republican candidates.
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There’s a new chapter being written in the battle for control of the state Democratic party.
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With just five weeks to go to the June 28 primary, we take a quick look at five incumbents fighting for their political lives in hotly contested primaries.
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I’m a little bit of a skeptic about the value of debates.
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The super tight lipped Irvin campaign released a poll yesterday showing themselves with a six point lead.
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Presumed frontrunners in the Democratic and GOP primaries for Secretary of State are being accused by challengers of dodging televised debates.
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Governor JB Pritzker’s campaign is out with a new ad today alleging some pretty heavy pay-to-play between billionaire Ken Griffin and Aurora Mayor and GOP candidate for Governor Richard Irvin.
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After watching both debates Tuesday, we had some thoughts.
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The six candidates for the GOP nomination for governor squared off in two separate debates Tuesday night, and we followed along with both.
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The general thinking of many Springfield or political types is that House Speaker Michael Madigan was likely bulletproof from wiretaps because there “was no way” he would be so reckless to talk about criminal activity on the phone.
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I stopped Irvin before he left the room and asked if he had a moment. He said “absolutely,” before a staffer cut him off, grabbing him by the shoulder saying “no, we can’t.”
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The federal government admitted Thursday it had undercounted Illinois in the 2020 census.
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Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who is now running for Illinois governor, arrived last year at the scene of an arrest by Aurora police in which his then-girlfriend was accused of hitting a security guard at a marijuana store.
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Senator Rachelle Crowe (D-Glen Carbon), a moderate former prosecutor who has served in the Senate since 2019, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
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This time ten years ago, rural Democrats were well represented in Springfield. That’s no longer the case.
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The Democratic Governors Association is out with a new ad that appears to attack GOP candidate Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia), but may actually benefit the conservative in his race against Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin.
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