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Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Gov. Pat Quinn gained the endorsement Wednesday of a couple of gun control group. The Gun Violence Prevention Political Action Committee and the National Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence endorsed Quinn, mainly because Quinn wants to ban assault weapons...

CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner debated how best to address crime in Illinois. The candidates for governor are faced off Tuesday in their second televised debate. Rauner says the best way to reduce violence it to provide better economic opportunities so people have jobs...

Last week I posted about the latest Reboot Illinois/We Ask America poll, saying the even though the survey showed Governor Pat Quinn with a three-point lead (within the margin of error), there was good news inside the numbers for Bruce Rauner...

We’ve talked a whole lot on the show about the Governor’s troubled anti-violence program, called the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative. Ostensibly the effort was designed to help combat the violence problem in Chicago and Cook County, but it more and more appears that it was $55 million in slush fund dollars to help the Governor win re-election...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Despite attacks by Bruce Rauner, Gov. Pat Quinn is sticking by his record on veterans’ issues. Rauner has claimed Illinois veterans have been hurting under Quinn’s leadership of the state, but Quinn says his record says otherwise, pointing to programs designed to help veterans get jobs and buy homes...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have wrapped up a two-day hearing questioning seven former state officials connected to Gov. Pat Quinn's troubled 2010 anti-violence program. Those testifying Thursday included Quinn's former chief operating officer Andrew Ross who says he didn't play a big role...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner each highlighted the other’s shortcomings in a debate Thursday night in Peoria on public television – the first broadcast debate of the campaign...

With less than a month to go before Election Day, the race for Governor in Illinois is extremely tight. However, it appears the incumbent, Pat Quinn, has the momentum in the race having closed what at one point appeared to be a double-digit deficit...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network The former head of the agency that oversaw the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative says election-year politics were not the reason the program was created. Barbara Shaw, won ran the now-disbanded Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, says while NRI was the largest program she was asked to implement, and she was asked to get it up and running within a few month

Today, it continues.  The investigation into the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, a 2010 anti-violence program suspected of being a political slush fund for the governor.  It so happens the gubernatorial election is within a month of the hearing...