Latest Fact-Checks In Illinois

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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 6, 2018 a tweet
There were "63 murders this weekend" in Chicago and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s legacy is "more murders in his city than ever before."
Pants on Fire!
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 7, 2018
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on July 31, 2018 a video on Twitter
"We have the most educated … workforce in the entire nation." 
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 5, 2018
Dorothy Brown
Dorothy Brown
stated on July 15, 2018 a radio interview
"Pre-K has gone down since the current mayor took office."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 29, 2018
Juliana Stratton
Juliana Stratton
stated on June 28, 2018 a radio interview
Gov. Bruce Rauner has "created no jobs over the past three years."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 16, 2018
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 28, 2018 a television interview
"Chicago is experiencing right now the highest employment since 1950."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 9, 2018
Evelyn Sanguinetti
Evelyn Sanguinetti
stated on June 26, 2018 a radio interview
Says a progressive income tax proposal from Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker "is wholly regressive."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 2, 2018
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on June 7, 2018 a campaign ad
"$1 billion—that’s how much Bruce Rauner has wasted with his budget crisis."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 25, 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."
True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 21, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on June 12, 2018 a speech
Says "massive floods" led to Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks at the Quincy Veterans’ Home.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 18, 2018
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on May 20, 2018 a radio interview
"We are the only metropolitan area in the country that’s losing population." 
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 1, 2018
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich
stated on May 28, 2018 a Wall Street Journal op-ed
"I’m in prison for practicing politics."
Pants on Fire!
By Bob Secter, John Chase • May 29, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on May 11, 2018 a policy forum
"There’s more union jobs growing in Texas, which is a right-to-work state, than in Illinois, and factory workers make more money in Texas than they do in Illinois."
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 24, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on May 8, 2018 remarks to a conference
A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone."
Mostly False
By Casey Toner • May 15, 2018
Ja'Mal Green
Ja'Mal Green
stated on April 24, 2018 a radio interview
Under Rahm Emanuel, "We’ve got tree trimmers making six figures."
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 1, 2018
Garry McCarthy
Garry McCarthy
stated on March 30, 2018 a campaign post
Studies show "the 2016 shooting and murder rate in Chicago cost us about $9.6 BILLION DOLLARS" and "the entire City budget for 2018 is $8.6 billion dollars. This math does not work, it is financially killing our city."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 17, 2018
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on March 30, 2018 a tweet
A recent stomach virus outbreak at the beleaguered Quincy Veterans’ Home shows Gov. Bruce Rauner "is letting persistent health issues jeopardize the wellbeing of our nation’s heroes."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 10, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on March 20, 2018 his victory speech
"Newspapers have framed this election as my fight against the Illinois mafia."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 21, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on February 13, 2018 a campaign ad
"Who’s really behind Jeanne Ives’ campaign for governor? Mike Madigan’s corrupt insider machine. They’ve bankrolled her campaign with thousands in shady labor union cash, turning Ives into another Madigan lackey."
Pants on Fire!
By Brett Chase • March 5, 2018
Chris Kennedy
Chris Kennedy
stated on February 9, 2018 an interview with the Southern Illinoisan editorial board
"Zero percent of kids in Cairo are college-ready."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 1, 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."
True
By Brett Chase • February 27, 2018
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