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Fact-Check: What’s Missing from Daley’s Property Tax Freeze Pledge

Daley is not promising to freeze property taxes overall, as his recent TV ad suggests. His freeze would apply only to taxes that directly fund city government, one-fourth of a typical Chicago tax bill.
December 16, 2018
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Trump's Top 10 Falsehoods of 2018

PolitiFact National offers 10 "highlights" from the president's 2018 record of false statements or exaggerations.
December 11, 2018
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PolitiFact's 2018 Lie of the Year

PolitiFact National names the online smears against the students who survived the Parkland shooting as its Lie of the Year for 2018.
December 11, 2018
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Rauner Blames Democrats for Decades of Bipartisan Can-Kicking

Nearing the end of his term, Gov. Rauner pointed a finger at state Democrats over Illinois’ entrenched fiscal instability.
December 9, 2018
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Fact-Check: Are Chicago Residents Among the Nation’s Most Taxed?

Low-income Chicagoans face one of the highest tax burdens around. But Lightfoot’s sweeping generalization isn’t supported by the facts.
December 2, 2018
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Fact-Check: Mendoza Claims Outsized Role in Ending Illinois Executions

While defending her criminal justice record, mayoral hopeful and state Comptroller Susana Mendoza claimed she cast the decisive vote as a state representative to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.
November 25, 2018
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Fact-Check: Vallas’ Sticky Attack on Mendoza’s City Sticker Record

Mayoral hopeful Paul Vallas hammered one of his rivals, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, for touting her record on vehicle stickers as Chicago’s one-time city clerk. But his claim gets stuck on one of the facts.
November 18, 2018
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The 2019 Chicago Mayor’s Race Is Heating Up: Here’s What We’re Watching

Still months away, the race for the city’s top office is already gaining steam. Here’s a recap of the issues would-be candidates are highlighting and the claims we’ve fact-checked so far.
November 11, 2018
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Fact-checking the Fact-challenged Candidates for Illinois Governor

The race between the ultra-wealthy candidates has been marked by finger-pointing, scandal and transparency issues. We’ve fact-checked dubious claims by both.
November 4, 2018
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Fact-Check: Casten Tax Claim Taxed By Facts

The Democratic congress hopeful says west suburban residents face tax sticker shock because of a GOP reform bill pushed by his opponent, U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam. Hyperbole and bad math undermine the claim.
October 31, 2018