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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

GOP gubernatorial debates: Bailey calls Chicago ‘a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole’

Republican candidates for governor, from left, Petersburg venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, state Sen. Darren Bailey, and Bull Valley businessman Gary Rabine prepare for a debate at WGN’s studios on Tuesday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

One suburban and two downstate Republicans on Tuesday brought their campaigns for governor to live TV in Chicago, a city they generally agreed was a community in “crisis,” with “shooting in the streets” and rampant corruption.

It was a bleak picture painted by the half of the GOP primary field — Petersburg venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, Bull Valley businessman Gary Rabine and Xenia state Sen. Darren Bailey — who squared off during a televised debate hosted by WGN-TV Tuesday evening. 

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