Mitchell Armentrout

The Sun-Times first reported the Harris campaign called Pritzker Wednesday about the possibility of serving as her running mate, but the Illinois governor told reporters that Harris’ campaign “did not call me yesterday.” The Sun-Times stands by its story.

The corporation behind Chicago’s casino announced Thursday it accepted an $18.25-per-share buyout from Standard General, the New York hedge fund led by Bally’s chairman Soo Kim.

Two homeowners with past-due water bills are Chicago City Council members, a Sun-Times investigation found. Two more of their colleagues paid up only after Sun-Times reporters asked about their overdue bills. One water bill deadbeat is the brother of Alfonzo “Randy” Conner, who heads the city Department of Water Management.

In uncharacteristically hushed tones during a speech that later pivoted to his populist agenda, Trump gave an account of the shooting which he said “you will never hear from me a second time because it’s actually too painful to tell.”

The state’s super-minority Republicans are leaving the GOP National Convention energized, and with a lot of confidence.

By Thursday evening, the largest protest of the convention saw about a thousand people marching through downtown streets. Chicago is expecting a bigger presence.

Vance went heavy on mentions of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio — and his humble Appalachian roots as documented in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ — on the third night of the Republican National Convention.

Salvi, who officially becomes the face of the state party on Friday, called on Illinois Republicans to set aside differences “to usher in a new era of Republican victories here in Illinois.”

Community activists in Milwaukee sharply criticized the shooting, which happened at an encampment for unhoused people, calling it unjustified.