If you want to know why Trump, Rauner, and Rahm are in power, just study the latest election.
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The next governor of Illinois: A superrich white guy
Get ready for the most expensive election for governor in U.S. history: J.B. Pritzker versus Bruce Rauner.
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Right-wing Twitter propaganda bots pumping up Jeanne Ives campaign for governor, study finds
The vast majority of Twitter posts in the Illinois governor’s race last week were in favor of Ives, a University of Illinois student found.
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Daniel Biss to rock the vote onstage with Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot in Chicago
The Democratic governor candidate will make a campaign stop at the show at Subterranean on Tuesday night.
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Pritzker, Biss, and Kennedy see the light—just in time for the primary
Last night’s Democratic debate was another reminder that Illinois Dems spent the better part of the last ten years acting like Republicans.
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Attorney and former Playboy model Corri Fetman calls out ‘body-shaming’ attack ad in judicial campaign
A Facebook video mocks Fetman for bodybuilding, calls her a “poser.”
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Looking for the most progressive Democrat in the governor’s race who’s least likely to sell us out
Biss, Daiber, Hardiman, Kennedy, Pritzker—man, I can’t make up my mind.
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Poll: Daniel Biss catching up to front-runner J.B. Pritzker in gubernatorial primary after wiretap controversy, and other Chicago news
Also, Canadian prime minister Trudeau wouldn’t let David Axelrod push him into discussing Trump.
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J.B. Pritzker under fire for comments about African-American elected officials in newly released Blagojevich tape, and other Chicago news
Also, Jeanne Ives is “a little bit surprised at some of the hysteria” over controversial campaign ad.
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Rauner delivers his final State of the State address with an eye to November elections, and other Chicago news
Also, a new poll shows that more than a third of likely Democratic primary voters are undecided on the race for governor.
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If Mayor Rahm really wanted to stop poor people from leaving Chicago, he’d stop giving TIF handouts to corporations
Instead another TIF deal benefits benefits a downtown building instead of neighborhoods in need.
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Activists clash with aldermen over community benefits at Obama Presidential Center hearing, and other Chicago news
Also, city clerk Anna Valencia discusses her struggle to be taken seriously as a woman in politics.
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Fix Illinois by breaking the state apart? A gubernatorial candidate makes the case.
Robert Marshall has a plan to dissolve Illinois and create three new independent states.
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Obama insiders say he’ll step up campaigning in 2018 as midterm elections approach, and other Chicago news
Also, Chris Kennedy leaves gubernatorial candidate forum after Jeanne Ives’s comments about gun violence.
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Chicago’s ‘clusters’ of unsolved strangling deaths near Washington Park and Garfield Park, and other news
Also, Chris Kennedy continues bold attack on Emanuel by mentioning Joe Berrios.