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What's on Gov. Bruce Rauner's legislative wish list if he wins re-election against J.B. Pritzker?

Catch up with what's going on in government and politics from Chicago to Springfield.

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October 31, 2018

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Observers of Illinois politics will recognize Gov. Bruce Rauner's answer when asked on Tuesday what he'll do right away if re-elected.

First, he said he'd thank lawmakers and ask them to come together. Then, he listed some top priorities that date back to his first campaign four years ago.

"Let's get done what we came very close to in the first term," Rauner said. "Let's get pension reform done. Let's get workers' comp reform done. And let's begin to get elements of term limits on the ballot.

"If we don't get everybody, how about we do some leaders? Or let's do the governor's office," he said.

The governor was visiting a DuPage County tool works company as part of a suburban campaign swing before heading Downstate.

He said his plan to get out the vote against Democrat J.B. Pritzker included a lot of travel in the final week, and he left Tuesday's Wood Dale event on his blue, branded bus afterward. (Mike Riopell)

What's on tap

*Mayor Rahm Emanuel will preside over the City Council meeting.

*Gov. Rauner has campaign stops scheduled in Belvidere and Moline.

*J.B. Pritzker has campaign stops scheduled in Chicago with various lawmakers. In the afternoon, he's scheduled to appear in East St. Louis with former Vice President Joe Biden, Lt. Gov. candidate Juliana Stratton, attorney general candidate Kwame Raoul, state Treasurer Mike Frerichs, U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos and southern Illinois congressional candidate Brendan Kelly.

What we're writing

*Superintendent Eddie Johnson defends $95 million plan for new Chicago police academy.

*Sean Casten, Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia and Congressional Democrats say GOP tax bill is 'Robin Hood in reverse.'

*Citing cancer risks, Lisa Madigan, DuPage prosecutor urge court to shut down Sterigenics in Willowbrook.

*Oprah will interview Michelle Obama at United Center.

*5 things about Trump's plan to end U.S. citizenship for children born to immigrant parents.

*Reagan, the Contras and the Orange Line — a CTA route's curious backstory.

*Halloween in Rogers Park with killer at large: 'It's still in my head every day.'

*Scientists are pushing to make Chicago a leader in quantum computing and the fight against hacking.

What we're reading

*Does this taste funny to you? Chicago's long, gross history of food poisoning.

*Witch hunt confirmed! When Chicago burned witches — sort of.

*Can the president change the U.S. Constitution?

Follow the money

*Uihlein in for another half-million for Proft's PAC: Conservative megadonor Richard Uihlein, who runs the Uline product packaging firm, has given another $500,000 to Liberty Principles PAC, the political action committee headed by talk show host and unsuccessful 2010 Republican governor candidate Dan Proft.

Uihlein has given Proft's PAC nearly $17.6 million since the fall of 2012, with $15.4 million of that coming since January 2017. Liberty Principles PAC has raised a total of nearly $25 million since 2012, about 70 percent coming from Uihlein. In the 2016 legislative races, it got $2.3 million from a PAC funded in part by Gov. Bruce Rauner, though Rauner and Proft have had a falling out since.

A prolific contributor to national conservative candidates and PACs, Uihlein has spent nearly $28.6 million on state campaigns and candidates in the past decade.

Proft's Liberty Principles is an independent expenditure PAC that is running TV ads on behalf of 19 Republican candidates in the state House and Senate.

*Track Illinois campaign contributions in real time here and here.

Beyond Chicago

*Shooting victim's family shuns Trump in Pittsburgh as leaders in Congress decline to join him.

*Notorious mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger killed in West Virginia prison at 89.

*The mystery of the new Boeing jet that plunged into the sea, killing 189.

*Mueller asks FBI to investigate claims women were offered money to say he behaved inappropriately.

 

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