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Instagram posts
stated on December 17, 2024 in a photo:

“A Coca-Cola truck filled with kids was found by police in Cicero, Illinois.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • December 18, 2024
Social Media
stated on October 22, 2024 in social media posts:

“Schaumburg, Illinois not recording votes, just putting votes ‘in a box.’”

By Loreben Tuquero • October 24, 2024
X posts
stated on September 3, 2024 in una publicación en X:

“Un grupo de 32 venezolanos armados tomaron esta noche un edificio de apartamentos en Chicago”.

By Sofia Ahmed • September 9, 2024
X posts
stated on September 3, 2024 in X posts:

A group of 32 armed Venezuelans took over an apartment building in Chicago.

By Sofia Ahmed • September 6, 2024
X posts
stated on August 17, 2024 in In X post on Aug. 17:

Photo shows “domestic Antifa are already gathering in Chicago, to create chaos during the Harris-Walz DNC.”

By Sabine Martin • August 21, 2024
X posts
stated on August 19, 2024 in an X post:

Democrats dyed the “Chicago River red to celebrate abortion.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 20, 2024
Chris Larson
stated on December 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

In the past year, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois passed "highly popular” policies such as paid family leave, one of several issues that have been stymied in Wisconsin by Republicans.

By Sophia Voight • January 30, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on September 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:

A FEMA office in Chicago is proof of a conspiracy.

By Sara Swann • September 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2023 in a post:

"Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers."

By Nuria Diaz Muñoz • August 11, 2023
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

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