There are 78 House races this November in which a Republican and Democrat appear on the ballot, but how many are actually competitive?
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Your Thursday Free for All.
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Appellate Court Justice and Democratic Illinois Supreme Court candidate Mary K. O’Brien released a new ad Tuesday that makes a baseless claim about the political positions of her Republican opponent, incumbent Justice Michael Burke.
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Sen. Scott Bennett (D-Champaign) has filed the first bill aimed at cleaning up the controversial cash bail elimination law that takes effect January 1.
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House Republicans appear divided into three camps leading into the November election, which could spell the end of House Republican Leader Jim Durkin’s (R-Western Springs) tenure leading the caucus.
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Your Monday Free for All.
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Indicted State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) pleaded not guilty Friday to federal bribery charges, and his attorneys say he “maintains his innocence.”
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Radio host Dan Proft’s response to the rightly critical news that the Daily Herald’s parent company was printing Proft’s obviously political tabloids pretending to be news sources has been akin to a four-year-old who had his Tonka truck taken away.
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Embattled Sen. Mike Hastings faces a re-election contest against Plainfield Police officer Patrick Sheehan of Lockport. Senate Republicans are high on Sheehan, but does he have a chance of defeating the embattled Hastings?
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Thursday night, the Daily Herald had announced it would stop printing and mailing the Proft-affiliated political pieces designed to look like legitimate newspapers.
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Your Thursday Free for All.
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The last Illinois governor to serve two full terms in office says it will be “very difficult” for Republicans to stop Governor JB Pritzker from winning re-election in November.
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Sen. Emil Jones III (D-Chicago), son of the powerful former Senate President Emil Jones, was indicted Tuesday on federal bribery charges relating to red light cameras.
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The last thing Darren Bailey’s lagging campaign needs is more conversation about social issues.
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Top Republicans say they could get on board with changes to the impending end of the state’s cash bail system, if judges are given more latitude than in the way the law is currently written.
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Your Monday Free for All.
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While the battle over a new law overhauling the state’s criminal justice system continues to play out with rhetoric and hot takes, we’re told House Democrats have been quietly working on changes to the criminal justice reform law during the upcoming veto session.
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GOP gubernatorial nominee Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) lost six figures in farm income twice in the past five years, but made six figures in two other years, according to five years of federal tax returns shared with The Illinoize.
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In a hastily called news conference Tuesday afternoon, GOP nominee for governor Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) took aim at Governor JB Pritzker over crime in Chicago, but also revealed he is renting an apartment in the city he continually refers to as a “hellhole.”
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Rachel Ventura wasn’t the chosen one, but toppled the appointed incumbent for a Joliet-based senate district in June.
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