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Jared Moskowitz
stated on March 26, 2023 in an interview on CNN:

Former President Donald Trump “instructed all the governors to shut down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on February 1, 2023 in a House committee hearing:

Illinois “received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity.”

By Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 8, 2022 in Instagram post:

‘No Sharpies on ballots’ permitted for in-person voting in Illinois.

By Michael Majchrowicz • November 10, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on September 9, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Under new Illinois law, these crimes are “nondetainable": “Burglary, robbery, arson, kidnapping, DUI offenses, even DUI involving a fatality, most drug offenses, and even 2nd degree murder.”

By Jeff Cercone • September 14, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 15, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Rep. Adam Kinzinger “admits Trump won” the 2020 presidential election.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on July 14, 2022 in an Instagram post:

R. Kelly “missing after prison security verify he’s escaped beneath facility.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 18, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, “bought the gun illegally.”

By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Images show Highland Park shooter had antifa connection

By Yacob Reyes • July 7, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2022 in a Facebook post:

The mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, was a “false flag.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 7, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on July 5, 2022 in a tweet:

Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.

By Bill McCarthy • July 5, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Illinois high school to implement race-based grading system in 2022-2023 school year

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 3, 2022
Greg Abbott
stated on May 25, 2022 in a press conference:

"We need to realize that people who think that ‘well, maybe if we could just implement tougher gun laws, it’s going to solve it,’ Chicago and LA and New York disprove that thesis."

By Analisa Trofimuk • June 3, 2022
Keith Pekau
stated on April 11, 2022 in in a campaign advertisement:

We’ve reduced crime to its lowest level in 27 years.

By Analisa Trofimuk • May 1, 2022
Mary Miller
stated on April 8, 2022 in a tweet:

The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible."

By Analisa Trofimuk • April 17, 2022
Tammy Duckworth
stated on March 15, 2022 in a tweet:

“An extra 2 whole months and 15 days. That’s how long it takes for white women to make the same amount men made in the same job last year. And it's even worse for women of color.”

By Analisa Trofimuk • April 1, 2022
Richard Irvin
stated on February 20, 2022 in a tweet:

"In my first year in office, Aurora homicides went down by 40%."

By Analisa Trofimuk • March 6, 2022
Blaine Wilhour
stated on February 9, 2022 in a press conference:

"There is absolutely no observed or clinical data that indicates any benefit whatsoever to masking K-12 students in schools."

By Analisa Trofimuk • February 20, 2022
JB Pritzker
stated on February 2, 2022 in the 2022 State of the State address.:

“A larger percentage of Illinoisans have been vaccinated than in any other Midwestern state.”

By Analisa Trofimuk • February 11, 2022
Lori Lightfoot
stated on December 31, 2021 in a year-end press release.:

"Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city."

By Analisa Trofimuk • January 31, 2022
Mary Miller
stated on October 23, 2021 in a tweet:

The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 31, 2021
Terri Bryant
stated on September 21, 2021 in a radio interview:

“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 3, 2021
Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

A slain Chicago police officer left behind a two-month-old baby.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 10, 2021
Rodney Davis
stated on July 27, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “office was calling the shots on all of their (Capitol security officials’) actions on Jan. 6.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 5, 2021
JB Pritzker
stated on July 21, 2021 in a podcast interview:

“You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 30, 2021
Terri Bryant
stated on July 13, 2021 in a radio interview:

“You may be 55 years old in [Illinois] and a citizen and not eligible for Medicaid. But if you are an undocumented immigrant and 55 or older, you’re eligible for Medicaid.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 20, 2021
Lori Lightfoot
stated on June 28, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 4, 2021
Rodney Davis
stated on June 21, 2021 in a press release:

“Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 27, 2021
JB Pritzker
stated on June 3, 2021 in a TV interview:

Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 11, 2021
Robert Martwick
stated on May 10, 2021 in a podcast interview:

Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 23, 2021

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