NORMAL, Ill. — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey engaged in a chippy first face-to-face broadcast debate Thursday night, as each man frequently interrupted the other with claims of lies, deception and hypocrisy.
Charges and countercharges filled the hour-long forum, which comes as early voting has been underway for a week throughout much of the state and begins Friday in Chicago, and with little more than a month before Election Day.
But the event, which was held at Illinois State University in Normal, sponsored by AARP and broadcast statewide on Nexstar TV stations, elicited some noteworthy items.
