Dave McKinney
Better Government Association
Democrats Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth held commanding leads over their GOP challengers in the survey. And broken down by region, the results also reflected Republican Bailey’s downstate difficulties in the governor’s race.
The winner of the primary will determine whether the state GOP continues as a center-right party in Illinois or gets recast as a subsidiary of former President Donald Trump.
The new revelations come at a delicate juncture for Rauner as he attempts to persuade state lawmakers to approve a replacement home in Quincy.
In some cases, lawmakers received documents so heavily redacted that they were virtually useless.
Illinois law caps any recovery for families at $100,000 — the same ceiling on negligence claims against the state that’s been in place for decades.
