Quinn, Rauner Vying For African-American Voters
In campaign 2014: you've seen the attack ads and verbal sparring on TV, but tonight Governor Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner will meet face to face in a televised debate right On CBS 2 at 6 p.m.
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In campaign 2014: you've seen the attack ads and verbal sparring on TV, but tonight Governor Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner will meet face to face in a televised debate right On CBS 2 at 6 p.m.
Crews are busy getting the DuSable Museum Auditorium ready for Tuesday's debate, which will be televised on CBS 2 at 6 p.m. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker introduces us to the two groups behind the debate.
Karen Lewis will not be challenging Rahm Emanuel in next year's mayoral election, according to a statement by Lewis' exploratory committee.
Amid the festivities of Chicago's Columbus Day Parade, the major party candidates for governor were discovering the usual ways to lob accusations at each other, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The Libertarian Party candidate for Governor is rejecting Republican Bruce Rauner's statement that a vote for him is wasted.
With three weeks to Election Day and just two days until the gubernatorial debate on CBS 2, both candidates for the state's highest office are thinking about how to score points in their last face-to-face meeting.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner has released his 2013 federal and Illinois income tax returns.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine has the latest in the hotly contested race for Illinois governor.
With less than four weeks before the Nov. 4 election, the two major-party candidates for Illinois governor met in Peoria.
Democrats and Republicans on a state panel looking into the governor's scandal-plagued 2010 anti-violence program were accusing each other of playing politics on Thursday as former Quinn administration aides testified in Chicago.
Chicago-area commuters have never seen anything like it. Metra has proposed fare increases averaging 10.8 percent, starting in February, with the guarantee of additional increases every year through 2024.
When teachers for Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 walked off the job one week ago, the district stopped paying their insurance premiums. The district gave teachers the option of continuing their coverage by paying 100 percent of their own premiums.
Lewis was hospitalized Sunday after feeling "discomfort," but the union had been tight-lipped about what is ailing the potential mayoral candidate.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel side-stepped questions about whether the city should pay reparations to some victims of police torture under notorious former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, who recently was released from prison.
