Latest Fact-Checks In Illinois

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Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller
stated on October 24, 2025 an interview
“To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 29, 2025
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2023 a post
"Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers."
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • August 11, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 25, 2022 a press conference
"We need to realize that people who think that ‘well, maybe if we could just implement tougher gun laws, it’s going to solve it,’ Chicago and LA and New York disprove that thesis."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • June 3, 2022
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on March 15, 2022 a tweet
“An extra 2 whole months and 15 days. That’s how long it takes for white women to make the same amount men made in the same job last year. And it's even worse for women of color.”
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • April 1, 2022
Richard Irvin
Richard Irvin
stated on February 20, 2022 a tweet
"In my first year in office, Aurora homicides went down by 40%."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • March 6, 2022
Blaine Wilhour
Blaine Wilhour
stated on February 9, 2022 a press conference
"There is absolutely no observed or clinical data that indicates any benefit whatsoever to masking K-12 students in schools."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • February 20, 2022
Sean Casten
Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 remarks at a press conference
Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021
Rodney Davis
Rodney Davis
stated on July 27, 2021 remarks at a press conference
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “office was calling the shots on all of their (Capitol security officials’) actions on Jan. 6.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 5, 2021
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on June 3, 2021 a TV interview
Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 11, 2021
Peggy Hubbard
Peggy Hubbard
stated on September 21, 2020 a Facebook post
“BLM Activist kills three people in a Louisville bar wearing a Breonna Taylor tee shirt last Friday.”
Mostly False
By Monique Curet • September 30, 2020
Peggy Hubbard
Peggy Hubbard
stated on August 20, 2020 a Facebook post
“The DNC omitted ‘one nation under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • August 21, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 4, 2020 a TV interview
Illinois “got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there” before Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 8, 2020
Rush Darwish
Rush Darwish
stated on March 3, 2020 a tweet
Says U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski “voted against the DREAM Act, supports separating families and banning Muslims.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 8, 2020
Bill Brady
Bill Brady
stated on January 18, 2020 a speech
Says Oregon’s highest income tax bracket included anyone making more than $250,000 in 2012 before the state expanded its upper bracket to include "anyone making more than $125,000."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 26, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on November 19, 2019 an interview
Says a study projected that a pension buyout program he expanded would save "billions and billions, potentially $25 billion."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 24, 2019
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on September 25, 2019 remarks at a town hall
"Teachers in Chicago Public Schools are paid some of the highest compensation of any school system in the country."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 11, 2019
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on September 16, 2019 a tweet
Says President Trump’s administration has "actually worsened our nation’s homelessness crisis" by cutting affordable housing programs, allowing shelters to refuse people based on gender identity or sexual orientation, evicting immigrant families of mixed legal status from subsidized housing and raising rent.
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 20, 2019
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on August 30, 2019 an interview
"We’ve got 600-plus police and fire pensions Downstate that are on the cusp of insolvency because they don’t have the revenues that they need to be able to keep those pensions going."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 8, 2019
Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger
stated on August 9, 2019 a TV interview
"97% of murders occur with handguns."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 15, 2019
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on August 6, 2019 a tweet
"Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year...With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground."
Mostly False
By Duncan Agnew • August 7, 2019
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