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Data centers emerging as key issue in Illinois governor’s race

From Capitol News Illinois: When Gov. JB Pritzker signed tax incentives for data centers into law in 2019, Republicans and Democrats celebrated the plan as an economic driver. Now, eight years later, the governor has paused those incentives.

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Independent governor candidate Collin Corbett aims to give voters ‘a home again’ in polarized IllinoisA fiscal conservative who supports abortion rights and opposes much of the Trump agenda, Corbett says there's a middle ground in the rematch between Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey.

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