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U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia holds a news conference Feb. 18, 2020.

The Spin: Pritzker expects COVID-19 cases to peak in mid-May | Mayor Lightfoot says shutdown could extend to June | U.S. Rep. Garcia rips Trump’s plan to halt immigration

April 21, 2020 at 5:24 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is now saying that prediction models show the number of COVID-19 cases won't peak in Illinois until mid-May, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot said his stay-at-home order, set...

Acting police Superintendent David Brown attends a farewell ceremony for interim Superintendent Charlie Beck with Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Chicago police headquarters April 15, 2020.

The Spin: Trump vs. Pritzker on COVID-19 testing | Willie Wilson vs. Mayor Lightfoot | Obama on Chicago in the time of Michael Jordan

April 20, 2020 at 7:22 p.m.

We're 10 days from the April 30 expiration of Illinois' COVID-19 stay-at-home order, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker sure seems to be telegraphing that he will likely extend it into May....

Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, in 2014.

The Spin: Pritzker keeps schools closed for rest of academic year | Lightfoot considers citywide service for COVID-19 victims | State mum on details of nursing home deaths

April 17, 2020 at 5:26 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker today announced he's closing schools for the remainder of the academic year as the COVID-19 crisis continues to batter the state. It seems hard to believe that...

A $2 trillion stimulus bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020.

The Spin: On Illinois’ deadliest COVID-19 day, talk of reopening state | White Sox fan Lightfoot at Wrigley Field | County Dems tap former GOPer for County Board

April 16, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

As Illinois saw its deadliest 24 hours in the pandemic - with 125 perishing from COVID-19 - Gov. J.B. Pritzker is toggling between questions about whether he'll extend his stay-at-home...

Jeffrey R. Tobolski, then-Cook County Board commissioner, 16th District, at the County Board meeting in Chicago on Jan. 16, 2020.

Cook County Democrats turn to a former Republican to take Jeff Tobolski’s county board seat.

April 17, 2020 at 6:35 p.m.

Democratic Party leaders turned to a one-time Republican who hailed from the colorful GOP political organization of Cicero's Betty Loren-Maltese to fill the Cook County Board seat left vacant with...

Jeanne Ives, Republican gubernatorial candidate, greets supporters while the election results continue to come in at the Abbington Banquets on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in Glen Ellyn.

The Spin: Pritzker’s pandemic budget bombshell | Chicago may be flattening the curve |Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Hillary Clinton’s new ‘stay home’ PSAs

April 15, 2020 at 8:57 p.m.

We knew it was going to be bad, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave us a window into the budget chasm triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said his his pet...

Zeke Emanuel, older brother of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is interviewed in an office in the Old Eisenhower Office Building in 2009 while he was working for the Obama administration on health reform.

The Spin: Obama swipes Trump while endorsing Biden | ‘Captain’ Trump vs. ‘Democrat governors’ | Zeke Emanuel suggests reopening economy in June

April 14, 2020 at 6:07 p.m.

In endorsing his onetime vice president today, former President Barack Obama skewered Republican Donald Trump, saying the incumbent's sizable "war chest" and "propaganda" won't necessarily inoculate him against backlash over...

President Donald Trump listens as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks on March 20, 2020, during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in Washington.

As Chicago, other cities report racial disparities in COVID-19 cases, Illinois Democrats call on Trump administration to collect nationwide data

April 14, 2020 at 1:29 p.m.

Illinois' Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to the Trump administration on Tuesday calling for the federal government to collect nationwide data on how the new coronavirus is attacking the...

The Illinois Department of Employment Security office in Springfield on Sept. 29, 2016. U.S. employment plummeted last month and will only continue to decline.

The Spin: Governors vs. Trump on reopening country | Pritzker’s downtime? ‘Tiger King’ | Chicago poll worker dies from COVID-19

April 13, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

President Donald Trump fired a Monday morning salvo at the media and the nation's governors, saying he has the authority — not the state's top elected leaders — to determine...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, lower center, and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, listen during a news conference in Hall C Unit 1 of the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago on Friday, April 3, 2020. T

The Spin: Trump holds nose over expanding mail-in ballots, key GOP ally Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts for it | Coronavirus and the nosy neighbor | Proposed city ordinance would end goats in the city

April 10, 2020 at 5:40 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder that medicine is not an exact science. Likewise, elected leaders who've taken the reins in responding to the pandemic aren't exactly in lockstep. To...

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