Latest Fact-checks by Kiannah Sepeda-Miller Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Mary Miller dicho el Octubre 23, 2021 en a tweet: The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.” Terri Bryant dicho el Septiembre 21, 2021 en a radio interview: “75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois. Sean Casten dicho el Agosto 23, 2021 en 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.” Rodney Davis dicho el Julio 27, 2021 en 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.” JB Pritzker dicho el Julio 21, 2021 en a podcast interview: “You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits. Terri Bryant dicho el Julio 13, 2021 en 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.” Lori Lightfoot dicho el Junio 28, 2021 en remarks at a press conference: Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.” Rodney Davis dicho el Junio 21, 2021 en a press release: “Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.” JB Pritzker dicho el Junio 3, 2021 en a TV interview: Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.” Robert Martwick dicho el Mayo 10, 2021 en a podcast interview: Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.” Richard Durbin dicho el Abril 13, 2021 en a TV interview: “We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.” Mike Bost dicho el Marzo 15, 2021 en a radio interview: The American Rescue Plan Act “does not” include “checks and balances” on how funds for state and local governments can be spent. JB Pritzker dicho el Febrero 17, 2021 en a speech: “For the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country.” Illinois Republican Party dicho el Febrero 5, 2021 en social media posts: “Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities” puts prisoners, politicians and college students ahead of “individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else.” JB Pritzker dicho el Noviembre 17, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions. Jim Oberweis dicho el Septiembre 18, 2020 en an ad: Says U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood described riots as “beautiful protests.” Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment dicho el Agosto 31, 2020 en an ad: Approving the constitutional amendment on Illinois' November ballot “would let the politicians immediately implement their plan to increase taxes on small businesses, farmers and large employers.” Darin LaHood dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a TV interview: “The post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus.” JB Pritzker dicho el Agosto 4, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.” Illinois Rising Action dicho el Junio 23, 2020 en a TV ad: “While voters were distracted, (Gov. J.B.) Pritzker gave huge pay raises to his politician buddies.” Kimberly Lightford dicho el Mayo 15, 2020 en a TV interview: The novel coronavirus was “man-made.” Darin LaHood dicho el Mayo 1, 2020 en a TV interview: "93% of the (COVID-19) cases in the state of Illinois have come from Chicago." Nancy Pelosi dicho el Mayo 4, 2020 en a TV interview: Illinois “got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there” before Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Lori Lightfoot dicho el Abril 7, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we’re in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing." JB Pritzker dicho el Marzo 17, 2020 en remarks at a press conference: Says it was “unquestionably” not within his “legal authority” to postpone Illinois’ primary election by changing the date or shifting to vote-by-mail. Rush Darwish dicho el Marzo 3, 2020 en a tweet: Says U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski “voted against the DREAM Act, supports separating families and banning Muslims.” Quentin Fulks dicho el Febrero 25, 2020 en a TV interview: Says California has a top income tax rate of 13.3% “and people aren’t leaving.” Daniel Lipinski dicho el Febrero 14, 2020 en a TV interview: Says the Affordable Care Act “took money out of the Medicare trust fund.” Jan Schakowsky dicho el Febrero 12, 2020 en committee hearing remarks: “We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.” Jeanne Ives dicho el Enero 29, 2020 en a press release: Says U.S. Rep. Sean Casten “demanded the impeachment of the Republican President before the Mueller report was even released.”
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Mary Miller dicho el Octubre 23, 2021 en a tweet: The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.” Terri Bryant dicho el Septiembre 21, 2021 en a radio interview: “75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois. Sean Casten dicho el Agosto 23, 2021 en 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.” Rodney Davis dicho el Julio 27, 2021 en 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.” JB Pritzker dicho el Julio 21, 2021 en a podcast interview: “You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits. Terri Bryant dicho el Julio 13, 2021 en 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.” Lori Lightfoot dicho el Junio 28, 2021 en remarks at a press conference: Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.” Rodney Davis dicho el Junio 21, 2021 en a press release: “Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.” JB Pritzker dicho el Junio 3, 2021 en a TV interview: Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.” Robert Martwick dicho el Mayo 10, 2021 en a podcast interview: Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.” Richard Durbin dicho el Abril 13, 2021 en a TV interview: “We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.” Mike Bost dicho el Marzo 15, 2021 en a radio interview: The American Rescue Plan Act “does not” include “checks and balances” on how funds for state and local governments can be spent. JB Pritzker dicho el Febrero 17, 2021 en a speech: “For the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country.” Illinois Republican Party dicho el Febrero 5, 2021 en social media posts: “Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities” puts prisoners, politicians and college students ahead of “individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else.” JB Pritzker dicho el Noviembre 17, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions. Jim Oberweis dicho el Septiembre 18, 2020 en an ad: Says U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood described riots as “beautiful protests.” Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment dicho el Agosto 31, 2020 en an ad: Approving the constitutional amendment on Illinois' November ballot “would let the politicians immediately implement their plan to increase taxes on small businesses, farmers and large employers.” Darin LaHood dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a TV interview: “The post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus.” JB Pritzker dicho el Agosto 4, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.” Illinois Rising Action dicho el Junio 23, 2020 en a TV ad: “While voters were distracted, (Gov. J.B.) Pritzker gave huge pay raises to his politician buddies.” Kimberly Lightford dicho el Mayo 15, 2020 en a TV interview: The novel coronavirus was “man-made.” Darin LaHood dicho el Mayo 1, 2020 en a TV interview: "93% of the (COVID-19) cases in the state of Illinois have come from Chicago." Nancy Pelosi dicho el Mayo 4, 2020 en a TV interview: Illinois “got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there” before Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Lori Lightfoot dicho el Abril 7, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we’re in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing." JB Pritzker dicho el Marzo 17, 2020 en remarks at a press conference: Says it was “unquestionably” not within his “legal authority” to postpone Illinois’ primary election by changing the date or shifting to vote-by-mail. Rush Darwish dicho el Marzo 3, 2020 en a tweet: Says U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski “voted against the DREAM Act, supports separating families and banning Muslims.” Quentin Fulks dicho el Febrero 25, 2020 en a TV interview: Says California has a top income tax rate of 13.3% “and people aren’t leaving.” Daniel Lipinski dicho el Febrero 14, 2020 en a TV interview: Says the Affordable Care Act “took money out of the Medicare trust fund.” Jan Schakowsky dicho el Febrero 12, 2020 en committee hearing remarks: “We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.” Jeanne Ives dicho el Enero 29, 2020 en a press release: Says U.S. Rep. Sean Casten “demanded the impeachment of the Republican President before the Mueller report was even released.”
Mary Miller dicho el Octubre 23, 2021 en a tweet: The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.”
Terri Bryant dicho el Septiembre 21, 2021 en a radio interview: “75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.
Sean Casten dicho el Agosto 23, 2021 en 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.”
Rodney Davis dicho el Julio 27, 2021 en 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.”
JB Pritzker dicho el Julio 21, 2021 en a podcast interview: “You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.
Terri Bryant dicho el Julio 13, 2021 en 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.”
Lori Lightfoot dicho el Junio 28, 2021 en remarks at a press conference: Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.”
Rodney Davis dicho el Junio 21, 2021 en a press release: “Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.”
JB Pritzker dicho el Junio 3, 2021 en a TV interview: Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.”
Robert Martwick dicho el Mayo 10, 2021 en a podcast interview: Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”
Richard Durbin dicho el Abril 13, 2021 en a TV interview: “We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.”
Mike Bost dicho el Marzo 15, 2021 en a radio interview: The American Rescue Plan Act “does not” include “checks and balances” on how funds for state and local governments can be spent.
JB Pritzker dicho el Febrero 17, 2021 en a speech: “For the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country.”
Illinois Republican Party dicho el Febrero 5, 2021 en social media posts: “Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities” puts prisoners, politicians and college students ahead of “individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else.”
JB Pritzker dicho el Noviembre 17, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
Jim Oberweis dicho el Septiembre 18, 2020 en an ad: Says U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood described riots as “beautiful protests.”
Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment dicho el Agosto 31, 2020 en an ad: Approving the constitutional amendment on Illinois' November ballot “would let the politicians immediately implement their plan to increase taxes on small businesses, farmers and large employers.”
Darin LaHood dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a TV interview: “The post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus.”
JB Pritzker dicho el Agosto 4, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.”
Illinois Rising Action dicho el Junio 23, 2020 en a TV ad: “While voters were distracted, (Gov. J.B.) Pritzker gave huge pay raises to his politician buddies.”
Darin LaHood dicho el Mayo 1, 2020 en a TV interview: "93% of the (COVID-19) cases in the state of Illinois have come from Chicago."
Nancy Pelosi dicho el Mayo 4, 2020 en a TV interview: Illinois “got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there” before Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Lori Lightfoot dicho el Abril 7, 2020 en remarks at a news conference: “Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we’re in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing."
JB Pritzker dicho el Marzo 17, 2020 en remarks at a press conference: Says it was “unquestionably” not within his “legal authority” to postpone Illinois’ primary election by changing the date or shifting to vote-by-mail.
Rush Darwish dicho el Marzo 3, 2020 en a tweet: Says U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski “voted against the DREAM Act, supports separating families and banning Muslims.”
Quentin Fulks dicho el Febrero 25, 2020 en a TV interview: Says California has a top income tax rate of 13.3% “and people aren’t leaving.”
Daniel Lipinski dicho el Febrero 14, 2020 en a TV interview: Says the Affordable Care Act “took money out of the Medicare trust fund.”
Jan Schakowsky dicho el Febrero 12, 2020 en committee hearing remarks: “We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.”
Jeanne Ives dicho el Enero 29, 2020 en a press release: Says U.S. Rep. Sean Casten “demanded the impeachment of the Republican President before the Mueller report was even released.”
