Latest Fact-Checks In Illinois

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Keith Pekau
Keith Pekau
stated on April 11, 2022 in a campaign advertisement
We’ve reduced crime to its lowest level in 27 years.
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By Analisa Trofimuk • May 1, 2022
Robert Martwick
Robert Martwick
stated on May 10, 2021 a podcast interview
Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 23, 2021
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on November 17, 2020 remarks at a news conference
“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 6, 2020
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on August 7, 2018 remarks during a press conference
"If you are a gun store owner and you decide to go out of business … you right now are allowed to convert your entire gun store inventory to ‘personal use’ and once it is a personal use weapon, you can sell it without background checks."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 26, 2018
Troy LaRaviere
Troy LaRaviere
stated on June 1, 2018 a blog post
"Under Emanuel, CPS has become the most understaffed school district in Illinois."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 21, 2018
Nancy Rotering
Nancy Rotering
stated on February 11, 2018 an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times
"It’s now constitutional to ban [assault weapons] in Illinois. Yet, the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity."
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By Brett Chase • February 27, 2018
Chris Kennedy
Chris Kennedy
stated on January 16, 2018 an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times
"There was no requirement to put in affordable housing."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 6, 2018
Daniel Biss
Daniel Biss
stated on November 27, 2017 a tweet
These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.
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By Matt Dietrich • December 4, 2017
Eric Holcomb
Eric Holcomb
stated on October 24, 2017 a campaign ad
"We’re growing union jobs faster than Illinois."
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By Matt Dietrich • November 3, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 28, 2017 a press conference
"I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor."
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By Matt Dietrich • October 10, 2017
Illinois Policy Institute
Illinois Policy Institute
stated on August 3, 2017 a tweet
The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.
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By Matt Dietrich • August 7, 2017
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on February 15, 2017 an interview with Willie Geist
"You can almost pinpoint half of the gun violence deaths to two or three specific sections in the city. They are just areas of devastation, economically and otherwise."
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By Marc Filippino • February 23, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on December 31, 2016 an op-ed in the (Springfield) State Journal-Register
The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005, costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.
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By Madeleine Doubek • February 17, 2017
Mike Fortner
Mike Fortner
stated on November 25, 2016 a op-ed for The State Journal-Register in Springfield
"House Bill 6627 also requires the applicant to attest to their eligibility to vote, as is required by the National Voter Registration Act and used by all other states that have (automatic voter registration)."
True
By Kevin Hoffman • January 17, 2017
David Menchetti
David Menchetti
stated on November 28, 2016 testimony before the Illinois House Labor and Commerce Committee
"The causation standard in Indiana is exactly the same as it is in Illinois."
True
December 19, 2016
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 19, 2016 a press conference
Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system. That’s the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.
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By Matt Dietrich • October 3, 2016
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on July 20, 2016 a press release
"Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity." 
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By Kevin Hoffman • August 4, 2016
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
stated on April 20, 2016 a speech
"Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants."
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By Joseph Cariz • July 14, 2016