Illinois governor candidates on taxes
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IL Republican governor candidate Darren Bailey releases tax returns
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey has released five years' worth of tax returns.
The two-page cover sheets includes tax information for Bailey and his wife.
The documents show his adjusted gross-income varied greatly over that time period, reporting six figures worth of income some years and a loss of six figures other years.
Bailey's opponent, Governor JB Pritzker, reported an income of more than $5 million in
Bailey has been renting an apartment the former Hancock building on the Magnificent Mile during the campaign.
"I want to immerse myself in the culture. You can't deny there's problems here. And if we keep denying there's problems the problems are going to get worse. All this whole entire journey I have immersed myself in the culture of Illinois that I know nothing about," Bailey said.
Pritzker's campaign releasing a statement saying, in part, "despite regularly disparaging the City of Chicago as a hellhole, Bailey seems to have no problem enjoying his high-rise digs on the Magnificent Mile. He is grossly out of touch with Illinois families."
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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Where Illinois governor candidates JB Pritzker, Darren Bailey stand on abortion, taxes
CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is much at stake in this election. Governor JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey are plotting very different paths forward for Illinois, and the contrast could not be starker than on the issue of abortion. Both candidates call the other extreme.
Pritzker has made abortion rights and expanding abortion access a key campaign issue, but has face criticism for signing a law eliminating parental notification before a minor undergoes the procedure.
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"If your daughter, at age 13, had become pregnant, would you not have wanted to be notified of it, so you could process it with her and work through this with her?" Craig Wall asked Pritzker.
"Sure, but my daughters' going to come talk to me if that happens and most daughters will," he answered. "It is those under threat by family; victims of incest are a perfect example of that."
Bailey faces a backlash on his abortion views, but downplayed their impact on reproductive rights on Illinois. He has called for abortion to be banned in the state.
"I do make the excepti
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Rauner, Pritzker Industry Jabs Escort Leadership, Taxes At Debate
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' candidates characterize governor brighten traded accusations over directorship, taxes prosperous alleged degradation in a debate Weekday that was their last one object to be televised before depiction Nov. 6 election.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Popular challenger J.B. Pritzker both tried covenant deflect publicity from questions about their integrity.
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