Latest Fact-Checks In Illinois

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on July 14, 2022 an Instagram post
R. Kelly “missing after prison security verify he’s escaped beneath facility.”
False
July 18, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2022 a Facebook post
Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, “bought the gun illegally.”
False
By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2022 a Facebook post
Images show Highland Park shooter had antifa connection
False
By Yacob Reyes • July 7, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2022 a Facebook post
The mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, was a “false flag.”
Pants on Fire!
July 7, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on July 5, 2022 a tweet
Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 5, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2022 a Facebook post
Illinois high school to implement race-based grading system in 2022-2023 school year
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 3, 2022
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
Keith Pekau
Keith Pekau
stated on April 11, 2022 in a campaign advertisement
We’ve reduced crime to its lowest level in 27 years.
True
By Analisa Trofimuk • May 1, 2022
Mary Miller
Mary Miller
stated on April 8, 2022 a tweet
The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible."
False
By Analisa Trofimuk • April 17, 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
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on February 2, 2022 the 2022 State of the State address.
“A larger percentage of Illinoisans have been vaccinated than in any other Midwestern state.”
Mostly True
By Analisa Trofimuk • February 11, 2022
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on December 31, 2021 a year-end press release.
"Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city."
False
By Analisa Trofimuk • January 31, 2022
Mary Miller
Mary Miller
stated on October 23, 2021 a tweet
The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.”
Pants on Fire!
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 31, 2021
Terri Bryant
Terri Bryant
stated on September 21, 2021 a radio interview
“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 3, 2021
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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2021 a Facebook post
A slain Chicago police officer left behind a two-month-old baby.
False
August 10, 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 July 21, 2021 a podcast interview
“You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 30, 2021
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