Richard Irvin

Billionaire businessmen Ken Griffin and Richard Uihlein — among the country’s biggest Republican donors — have combined to pour more than $60 million into the race. Griffin backs Irvin and Uihlein supports Bailey.

How to pay for schools is a dilemma that surfaces perennially in Illinois elections. Some answers recently pitched by Republican candidates for governor included doubling superintendents’ workloads and expanding voucher programs.

Things got a bit chippy Thursday night when the six Republican candidates took the stage together for the first time for a debate in Chicago.

There was little difference among Republican candidates for Illinois governor in a televised debate Thursday when it came to questions of protecting schoolchildren from mass shootings

Doctors in Illinois may now perform abortions on minors without notifying the child’s parents or obtaining a judicial bypass of the notification requirement.

The football team has not finalized a departure from Soldier Field, although its owners have hired architects and consultants to draft plans for a stadium on the former racetrack property.

Abortion, January 6, Donald Trump, Critical Race Theory and whether Joe Biden is rightfully the president of the United States were the basis of questions asked to a field of six Republican candidates for Illinois governor

While all candidates expressed horror at the tragedy, responses from a policy standpoint in the GOP Illinois Governor primary ranged from saying more needs to be done to support police and treat mental health to candidates saying more guns are needed in schools

For those polled who have picked a candidate, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin had the lead at 24.1%, followed by state Sen. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, at 19.8%, Gary Rabine at 7.8%, Jesse Sullivan at 7.3%, Max Solomon at 2.3% and Paul Schimpf at 1.9%

The Irvin campaign, normally active with news releases daily, issued none on Tuesday in the wake of the Supreme Court leak.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said he will increase funding for police and put more officers on the street if elected Governor, while also permanently cutting some taxes. Read more in his election questionnaire here.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday defended a television ad paid for by the Democratic Governors Association that attacks one of the Republican challengers for governor as “simply telling the truth.”

Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey made a stop in McHenry Thursday morning, telling the crowd of about 50 supporters that he will “restore” Illinois and saying the state “cannot afford another four years of JB Pritzker.”

Billionaire Ken Griffin made his support for a Republican governor official on Monday, contributing $20 million to Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin in his quest to replace Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin jumped into a crowded Republican primary for governor Monday asserting he is the best pick to take on Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker in the general election.