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State Week: Primary election recap

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Brian Mackey
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NPR Illinois

Primary contests for U.S. Senate, governor, comptroller and more were decided this week. In a bruising Democratic race to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin, a lot of money was spent on a lot of negative ads.

Republicans chose Darren Bailey as their nominee for governor, setting up a rematch from 2022 with Gov. JB Pritzker. We'll break down what happened and what it means for the general elections this fall.

Host Sean Crawford is joined by Professor Emeritus Charlie Wheeler and Chicago Tribune Chief Political Writer Rick Pearson.

The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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