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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Robert Herguth

Speaker’s wife returns out-of-state contribution to her judicial campaign

Cook County judicial hopeful ShawnTe Raines-Welch has returned a $10,000 campaign contribution that violated a new state law, enacted with the backing of her husband, Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, banning out-of-state financing for judicial candidates in Illinois.

In records filed with the state election board, Raines-Welch’s campaign listed the contribution as having come from Intensive Specialty Hospital of Shreveport, Louisiana.

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