Reboot Illinois Joins the Pulitzer Prize-Winning PolitiFact Team

Illinois never has been more polarized. Our nation never more divided. This campaign season is unlike any other before it. Against this backdrop, in the instant age of the internet, claims and counterclaims, charges and countercharges fly faster than the human brain can process them.

And the intensity and volume and velocity of those claims only will increase as we catapult through the calendar toward the Nov. 8 election and the aftermath that still leaves our state and local officials needing to pass a budget and replenish depleted public pension plans.

That is why we’re happy to let you know we’re here to help you sort out the truth.

Today, we are thrilled to announce Reboot Illinois is joining the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact team. Reboot Illinois now is the exclusive home of PolitiFact Illinois, partnering with the world-renowned news operation to prosecute political speech, find the facts and determine in transparent fashion whether the claims and counterclaims of Illinois’ officeholders, public figures and pundits are true.

“Politicians be warned, the Truth-O-Meter has made it to Illinois,” said PolitiFact executive director Aaron Sharockman. “We’re thrilled to have a partner like Reboot Illinois, who already has a track record of holding the state’s political establishment accountable. The addition of PolitiFact will only further help Illinois voters this fall and in the years to come.”

We begin cutting through the clutter today. Gov. Bruce Rauner repeatedly has been saying Illinois has lower family incomes today than it did 17 years ago because of the actions of Democrats led by House Speaker Mike Madigan. What does our research show? And where did it land on the PolitiFact Truth-o-Meter?

You can find the answers in our first PolitiFact Illinois fact-check.

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