The mayor of the ultra-liberal, near-north Chicago suburb of Evanston wants to apply for a slice of a $20 million county grant to turn an abandoned office building in his city into a new migrant shelter in a bid to help take migrants off the hands of officials in Chicago.
State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) conceded the gubernatorial primary to incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner just after 10:30 p.m. Central time– after coming tantalizingly close to an upset victory.
State Representative Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) is hoping to pull off an upset Tuesday against incumbent Republican governor Bruce Rauner, who is clinging to a narrow lead in the polls.
Conservative insurgent State Representative Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) says she has nearly caught incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner, just days before the Republican primary on Tuesday.
Jeanne Ives is challenging the go-along-to-get-along caucus, bringing life back to the race and hope back to a state that has been failed by the establishment of both parties and needs bold leadership.
Billionaire J.B. Pritzker, the leading Democrat candidate for governor in Illinois, apologized Tuesday for comments he made in 2008 as he joked about Barack Obama’s “God d*mn America” scandal earlier that year.
Incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner is the second-most-unpopular governor in the U.S. who is actually running for re-election, according to the Morning Consult Governor Approval Rankings, released Thursday.
EVANSTON, Illinois — Twelve days after Donald J. Trump stunned the world with a decisive victory to win election as the 45th President of the United States, over 400 Chicago Democrats gathered Sunday in a collective “shiva” — a Jewish term for mourning — as Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) began her “Post Election Community Meeting” with “a kind of opening prayer of sorts.”
