Factcheck

Rauner overlooks nearly a dozen states with graduated systems that tax middle-class earners at lower rates than flat-tax Illinois.

Rauner campaign ad selectively quotes — rather than misquotes — newspapers in attack on Pritzker’s tax plan.

Days after Chicago’s most violent weekend this year, the first-term senator points out what she sees as a gaping loophole in federal gun laws.

In an attack on challenger Sean Casten’s health care position, U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam distorts the Democrat’s policy stance and attempts to blame Casten for the impact of policies Roskam has supported.

In criticizing Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s violence-prevention record, President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani flubs his numbers.

Residents protest distribution centers, a metal scrap recycling plant and an asphalt maker — businesses other communities shun. The city has to change the way it permits heavy industry from locating near schools, parks and homes, they say.

In praising the state for its ability to attract business, Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker stretches the truth about the educational accomplishments of Illinois’ workforce.

Overall preschool enrollment has dipped under Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But that’s an incomplete measure of the city’s program, which has increased more in-demand, full-day opportunities substantially since he took office.

Pritzker’s running mate Stratton says employment flatlined under Rauner. But federal jobs data—and her campaign’s own response—tell a different story.

The mayor’s latest claim about Chicago’s workforce holds up no better to the facts than a similar one he made early this year. Not surprisingly, there were more workers and jobs in the city decades ago when the population was much greater.