The Illinois State Board of Elections voted Thursday to remove Republican gubernatorial candidate Joseph Severino and his running mate, Rantch Isquith, from the March 17, 2026, Republican primary ballot after determining the campaign failed to submit enough valid nominating petition signatures, as first reported by the Daily Herald.
Chicago radio host Dan Proft criticizedGov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) after new tax filings showed the governor and his wife reported $10.3 million in taxable income, including $1.4 million in gambling winnings.
Richard Uihlein, CEO of Uline and one of the most influential Republican donors in recent elections, has contributed $250,000 to Ted Dabrowski’s campaign for Illinois governor.
Illinois is one of twenty states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, that bans copay accumulators.
Illinois ranked No. 14 in the country for per-capita credit card fraud reports in 2023.
Richard Hunt, executive chairman of the Electronic Payment Coalition (EPC), said yesterday that U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has requested a federal hearing on airline credit card and rewards programs as “retribution” for the airline industry’s opposition to Durbin’s proposed credit card regulations.
Illinois’ two governor, U.S. senators, secretary of state, and attorney general all this week marked “Kwanzaa,” which was created in 1966 by a man convicted of torturing two women.